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IN 

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1710  1711 


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William  John  James,  . 

Lucius  Albert  Barbour, 

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INTRODUCTION 


If  abundance  of  historic  vicissitudes  and  varieties  of 
being  could  make  a  district  happy,  Acadia  in  its  first 
two  centuries  would  be  supremely  blessed  among 
American  provinces.  Of  all  the  colonies  in  the  western 
Hemisphere, — English,  French,  Spanish,  Portuguese, 
Dutch,  Swedish, — none  approaches  it  for  the  number 
of  oscillations  in  its  ownership,  and  the  sweeping 
changes  in  its  conditions  of  inhabitance.  Six  times  in 
less  than  a  century  it  was  conquered  and  given  back, 
wiped  out  of  existence  and  resettled,  or  transferred 
from  one  private  lord  to  another.  Within  another  half- 
century  it  was  largely  depopulated  by  a  military 
measure  strange  to  this  continent,  though  not  to  others ; 
to  be  again  repeopled  by  its  old  inhabitants,  who  were 
shortly  swamped  bj^  a  new  immigration  of  refugees 
from  its  lifelong  colonial  enemy,  torn  by  a  revolution 
from  its  ancient  national  enemy,  now  its  mistress.  Of 
all  these  changes.  Port  Roj'^al,  now  Annapolis,  bore  the 
brunt  and  was  the  head,  carrying  the  control  of  the 
colony  with  it. 

For  the  major  part  of  this,  the  reason  is  clear.  Its 
position  among  colonies  was  unique.  It  was  a  seaboard 
outlier  of  a  i)ower  which  always  lost  the  control  of  the 
sea  during  a  war  with  the  owner  of  its  rival  colonies, 
yet  whose  European  position  long  enabled  it  to  reclaim 
its  lost  children  at  the  end  of  every  war.  It  was  the 
river-mouth  guard  of  an  inland  colony  which  was  only 


[   2   ] 

to  be  reached  by  first  seizing  its  gate-keeper.  It  was 
a  first-rate  privateering  station,  and  excellent  centre 
for  supply  and  incitement  of  Indian  raids  on  its  nearest 
colonial  neighbors,  in  whose  minds  therefore  its  capture 
was  always  at  the  forefront.  But  it  had  internal  con- 
ditions also  which  created  its  two  most  picturesque 
episodes.  It  was  the  seat  of  a  valuable  fur-trade,  which 
generated  a  violent  struggle  between  a  royal  grantee 
and  an  adventurous  "squatter,"  still  famous.  It  had 
a  much  paternalized  French  Catholic  population,  which 
at  once  kept  away  the  free  English  settlers  that  made 
the  growth  of  the  other  colonies,  and  remained  still 
obedient  French  instruments  under  English  sway,  a 
sure  warrant  of  ruin. 

Planted  first  by  De  Monts  and  Poutrincourt  in  1604, 
Port  Royal  was  exterminated  with  all  its  coast  fellows 
by  Argall  in  1613.  The  peninsula  was  held  by  a  few 
wanderers  under  Biencourt  and  his  lieutenants  the 
La  Tours;  the  town  was  conquered  for  England  and 
replanted  with  a  Scotch  colony  by  the  Huguenot  David 
Kirke  in  1629,  and  the  whole  returned  to  France  in 
1632.  The  royal  grantee  Razilly  left  it  to  D'Aunay  in 
1635;  and  from  1638  to  1646  the  latter  carried  on 
internecine  war  with  the  younger  La  Tour  for  over- 
lapping grants,  and  finally  for  the  whole  and  La  Tour's 
liberty  and  perhaps  life,  which  ended  in  D'Aunay's 
victory  and  the  death  of  La  Tour's  heroic  consort.  But 
four  years  later  D'Aunay  died;  and  La  Tour  at  once 
obtained  a  royal  pardon  and  grant  of  the  whole.  Con- 
quered a  second  time  for  England  under  Cromwell,  by 
his  old  general  now  Major  Robert  Sedgwick  of  Massa- 


[  3  ] 

chusetts,  it  was  again  restored  at  the  Treaty  of  Breda 
in  1667.  Conquered  a  third  time  for  England  by  Sir 
William  Phips  in  1690,  it  was  a  third  time  given  back 
at  the  Treaty  of  Ryswick  in  1697.  Conquered  a  fourth 
time  for  England  by  General  Francis  Nicholson  in 
1710, — the  subject  of  this  diary, — it  was  not  given 
back,  though  old  Louis  XIV.  made  the  most  despairing 
efforts  to  retain  it.  In  its  place  arose  the  fortress  of 
Louisbourg,  which  a  sardonic  fate  might  well  have 
induced  France  to  build  as  a  Greek  gift  to  her  enemy 
England.  But  that  power  had  been  fighting  not  for 
Acadia,  but  against  France ;  as  conversely  had  France. 
-The  province  was  substantially  forgotten  and  left 
pretty  much  to  its  own  devices,  the  people  to  priestly 
intrigue  which  kept  them  French  in  allegiance.  And 
when  the  final  struggle  came  with  France,  the  English 
government  could  only  undo  its  many  years'  laches, 
and  secure  its  eastern  frontier  by  making  a  desert  of  its 
own  province. 

The  first  expedition  on  which  our  diarist  went,  that 
which  finally  made  Acadia  English,  was  toward  the 
close  of  Queen  Anne's  War,  the  American  portion  of 
the  War  of  the  Spanish  Succession.  In  this  colonial 
war  the  French  had  two  main  objects  in  view:  the  one 
of  direct  military  importance,  the  other  indirect  and 
to  keep  their  tools  in  condition.  The  first  was  to  strike 
at  New  York  and  Boston  and  destroy  the  colonial  com- 
merce, as  well  as  to  secure  the  control  of  the  West; 
the  second  was  to  keep  the  Indians  embroiled  with  the 
provincials,  and  prevent  their  drifting  into  peaceful 
relations  which  would  cut  the  ground  from  under  the 


[  4   ] 

French.  The  latter  motive  was  the  source  of  expedi- 
tions of  mere  ravage  and  murder,  like  the  massacre  at 
Deerfield  in  1704,  which  had  no  military  object.  This 
atrocity  could  not  be  avenged  by  the  colonies  attacking 
Canada,  imj)regnable  in  her  forests;  but  Acadia  could 
be  reached  by  the  New-Englanders'  chosen  element, 
the  sea.  The  old  Indian-fighter  Benjamin  Church  at 
once  organized  an  expedition  to  break  up  that  haunt 
of  privateers,  and  supply  station  for  Indian  raids  on 
New  England;  but  was  forbidden  to  attack  Port 
Royal,  the  only  thing  worth  while  and  which  alone 
made  the  province  formidable.  None  the  less  he 
brought  his  little  fleet  before  it  and  summoned  it  to 
surrender;  but  his  officers  colonial  and  British  refused 
to  attack,  and  he  went  home. 

Three  years  later  a  joint  New  England  force  (except 
from  Connecticut)  was  dispatched  against  Port  Royal 
under  Colonel  Jolin  March  of  Massachusetts,  and 
intrenched  before  it ;  but  there  was  no  discipline  among 
the  men  or  courage  among  the  officers.  One  council 
of  war  voted  to  withdraw,  a  second  to  bring  up  the 
cannon  and  attack,  a  third  again  to  raise  the  siege; 
and  after  the  men  had  demolished  some  outbuildings 
under  fire,  with  a  spirit  which  showed  that  with  leader- 
ship an  assault  was  hopeful,  the  armament  drew  off. 
Reinforced,  they  again  came  up,  landed,  fought  small 
engagements  for  a  week,  and  returned  home,  to  be 
mocked  by  the  children  in  the  street. 

Two  years  later,  in  1709,  an  expedition  to  conquer 
all  Canada  was  authorized  by  the  English  government, 
on  the  persuasion  of  Captain  Samuel  Vetch,  an  expe- 


[  5  ] 

rienced  Scotch  soldier,  one  of  the  survivors  of  Paterson's 
Darien  colony,  and  son-in-law  of  Robert  Livingston 
of  New  York;  now  at  Bo'ston  in  the  Canadian  trade. 
The  northern  colonies  were  directed  to  raise  1500  men 
(Connecticut's  share  350)  for  an  expedition  by  Lake 
Champlain,  under  Colonel  Francis  Nicholson,  ex-gov- 
ernor of  several  colonies  and  late  lieutenant-governor 
of  Xew  York;  and  1200  for  one  by  the  St.  Lawrence, 
capturing  Port  Royal  on  the  way,  with  the  aid  of  a 
royal  fleet  and  force.  Nicholson's  troops  (to  which 
New  Jersey  and  Pennsylvania  had  refused  to  con- 
tribute) lay  all  summer  in  camp  on  Wood  Creek,  dying 
like  flies  of  dysentery  brought  on  by  heat,  insects,  and 
unsanitary  conditions.  The  St.  Lawrence  levies  waited 
at  Boston.  Four  months  after  Vetch  and  Nicholson 
had  left  England  with  the  promise  of  the  regulars  and 
fleet,  the  foreign  secretary  wrote  to  Governor  Dudley 
of  ISIassachusetts  that  they  had  been  sent  to  Portugal 
instead;  they  were  needed  in  Europe.  This  letter 
reached  America  the  11th  of  October,  when  Nicholson's 
force  was  hors  de  combat  and  the  season  for  a  campaign 
was  past.  Yet  even  then  all  the  New  England  gov- 
ernors joined  in  an  offer  to  send  their  forces  against 
Port  Royal  if  the  frigates  at  New  York  and  Boston 
would  join;  but  the  captains  refused. 

But  New  England  was  determined  to  be  rid  of  Port 
Royal.  Nicholson,  just  starting  for  England,  was 
commissioned  to  tell  the  government  that  the  colonists 
would  again  assault  the  place  the  following  year,  if 
they  could  have  four  frigates  and  five  hundred  regulars, 
though  sorely  crippled  in  their  finances  by  the  strain 


[   6  ] 

of  the  war  expeditions  and  border  guards.  The  forces 
were  asked  for  the  latter  part  of  March;  they  arrived 
in  July.  The  colonies  set  vigorously  at  work  to  raise 
their  quotas  and  their  supplies.  Connecticut  formed  a 
battalion  of  300  men/  Massachusetts  two  of  450  each, 
New  Hampshire  and  Rhode  Island  jointly  one  of  300. 
Five  frigates  and  the  Massachusetts  provincial  galley, 
with  from  thirty  to  forty  transports  and  supply  ves- 
sels, constituted  the  squadron,  whose  naval  commander 
was  Sir  Charles  Hobby.  Sailing  the  18th  of  Septem- 
ber, six  days  later  it  anchored  in  Port  Royal  Harbor, 
and  the  next  day  landed  nearly  2000  men  before  a  fort 
containing  perhaps  300,  besides  some  armed  civilians. 

The  garrison  seems  to  have  felt  hopeless  from  the 
start  in  face  of  such  overwhelming  odds;  and  both 
regulars  and  civilians  began  to  skulk  out  of  the  lines 
and  disappear  long  before  the  siege  artillery  was  in 

^  It  had  already  selected  its  officers:  Colonel,  Col.  William 
Whiting;  Lieutenant-Colonel,  Lt.-Col.  Matthew  Allyn,  or  in  case 
of  his  declining,  Major  Ebenezer  Johnson;  Major,  Captain  John 
Burr;  Captain,  Lt.  Roger  Newton  of  Milford;  (why  only  one, 
cannot  be  guessed;)  Lieutenants,  Lts.  Jonathan  Belden  of  Wethers- 
field,  Wm.  Adams  of  Milford,  John  Clark  of  Stratford,  John  Hall 
of  Wallingford,  Samuel  Webster  of  Hartford  (brother  to  the  great- 
great-grandfather  of  Noah  Webster),  William  Crocker  of  New 
London,  John  Gardner  of  Stonington,  with  Richard  Miles  of  New 
Haven  and  Samuel  Keelar,  Jr.  of  Norwalk;  commissary,  Chris- 
topher Christophers ;  chaplain,  Samuel  Whittlesey  of  Wallingford, 
who  apparently  declined  to  serve  and  was  replaced  by  Rev.  Mr. 
Buckingham,  the  diarist,  on  appointment  by  the  Governor  and 
Council;  "chirurgeons,"  James  Laborie  and  Samuel  Mather.  It 
also  voted  <£50  towards  sea  stores. 


[   7   ] 

place,  and  when  the  only  firing  was  from  the  English 
bomb-ketch,  to  which  the  cannon  of  the  fort  made  fair 
reply.  Subercase,  the  commander,  was  a  veteran  with 
a  good  record,  and  had  recently  declined  reinforce- 
ments; but  he  felt  no  call  to  be  a  martjT,  any  more 
than  Cornwallis  at  Yorkto^Mi  or  Stoessel  at  Port 
Arthur.  When  the  preparations  for  bombardment 
were  nearly  completed,  and  the  intrenclmients  solidly 
established  within  400  yards,  he  asked  leave  to  send 
the  ladies  in  the  fort  to  Nicholson's  camp  for  protection 
from  the  shells.  Xicholson  acceded,  but  Subercase 
offered  to  capitulate  instead.  Xicholson  waited  another 
da}^  until  the  siege  artillery  was  efficiently  placed,  and 
then  formally  demanded  surrender.  By  the  next  day 
(Oct.  2/13),  terms  were  settled:  the  garrison  to  be 
carried  to  France,  and  the  inhabitants  for  tliree  miles 
around  to  remain  on  taking  an  oath  of  fidelity.  Three 
days  later  the  evacuation  was  effected.  The  258 
French  soldiers  who  had  not  deserted  were  replaced 
with  200  British  marines  and  250  provincials  who 
volunteered;  Vetch  was  made  governor  of  Acadia; 
Port  Royal  was  re-named  Annapolis  Royal;  and  the 
Acadian  kaleidoscope  took  its  last  turn  for  nearly  half 
a  century.  But  Isle  Royale  (Cape  Breton)  became  a 
new  Acadia,  to  the  same  effect,  and  in  turn  was  con- 
quered, to  be  anew  given  back  to  France,  and  anew  and 
finally  repossessed.  If  it  be  counted  a  part  of  the 
original  Acadia,  its  sliiftings  add  still  another  pair  of 
oscillations  to  those  of  the  greater  section. 

The   success  of  this   expedition   stimulated   a   fresh 
attempt  of  the  English  government  for  the  conquest 


[  8  ] 

of  Canada,  to  which  other  influences  lent  weight.  The 
popular  irritation  with  the  drain  of  the  great  war  and 
with  the  INIarlborough  clique  had  enabled  the  Tories 
to  overturn  his  Wliig  administration;  and  using  part 
of  his  best  troops  to  annex  New  France  would  accom- 
plish two  great  ends  at  once, — balance  his  resounding 
European  victories  by  a  vastly  more  fruitful  American 
one,  and  cripple  liis  power  of  winning  more  by  depleting 
his  forces.  The  plan,  aside  from  the  personal  aims, 
was  statesmanlike,  but  the  curse  of  jobbery  was  upon 
it,  -as  upon  the  early  part  of  the  later  Seven  Years' 
War.  Five  of  Marlborough's  veteran  regiments  were 
taken,  with  two  other  good  ones;  but  in  command  was 
placed  "Jack"  Hill,  brother  of  Queen  Anne's  favorite 
]Mrs.  Masham, — a  court  hanger-on  with  neither  parts, 
courage,  nor  experience,  but  made  a  brigadier-general, 
and  thought  good  enough  to  win  an  American  cam- 
paign. The  naval  command  was  given  to  a  bird  of  the 
same  mental  and  moral  feather  but  longer  in  service, — 
Sir  Hovenden  Walker,  jobbed  into  the  naval  service 
long  enough  before  to  have  nominal  experience.  They 
were  to  ascend  the  St.  Lawrence  and  capture  Quebec, 
while  Nicholson  as  before  was  to  operate  by  Lake 
Champlain.  New  York  and  New  England  again 
strained  themselves,  and  Nicholson  planted  himself  and 
about  2300  white  men  and  Indians  in  wooden  shelters 
at  Wood  Creek,  waiting  for  the  word  from  the  naval 
force  to  advance. 

The  word  he  received  was  that  the  expedition  was  an 
utter  "fluke,"  partly  from  accident,  but  chiefly  from 
the  unmanly  cowardice  and  meanness  of  spirit  of  the 


[  9  ] 

commanders.  The  only  officer  on  board  with  the  pluck 
of  a  man,  Vetch,  commanding  the  provincials,  was  not 
listened  to.  There  were  no  pilots  who  understood  the 
St.  Lawrence,  but  that  was  nothing  new,  and  had  not 
prevented  fleets  like  Phips'  from  reaching  Quebec 
before.  A  captured  French  captain  was  impressed  as 
a  pilot,  and  entertained  himself  and  served  his  country 
by  telling  such  horrible  stories  about  the  arctic  winters 
at  Quebec  that  the  commanders  were  half  mad  with 
fright.  Walker  was  convinced  that  if  they  ever  arrived, 
they  should  be  worse  than  ice-bound;  the  river  would 
freeze  to  the  bottom  and  crush  the  ships  in  pieces,  and 
the  soldiers  and  crews  in  the  midst  of  vast  snow-drifts 
would  resort  to  cannibalism.  The  French  pilot  let  the 
others  run  the  fleet  on  the  north  shore  when  they 
thought  it  the  south,  where  the  river  is  seventy  miles 
wide  ( !) ;  ten  transports  and  supply  vessels  were 
wrecked,  and  towards  a  thousand  lives  lost.  But  the 
expedition  numbered  nearlj'^  12000, — some  6100  regu- 
lars and  marines  and  1500  provincials,  besides  artillery- 
men, with  nine  war  ships  and  over  sixty  transports  and 
other  vessels  and  their  crews;  the  losses  had  not  been 
more  than  a  day's  hard  fighting  would  cost,  and  left 
the  expedition  still  so  strong  that  the  slender  force  at 
Quebec  could  hardly  have  held  out  a  fortnight.  But 
the  heads  were  anxious  only  for  an  excuse  to  go  home. 
Vetch  offered  to  take  the  fleet  to  Quebec;  the  other 
captains  would  not  hear  to  the  experiment — they  were 
not  required  to  be  braver  than  their  chiefs.  Vetch  pro- 
tested with  vigor;  but  to  no  purpose.  The  fleet 
returned  to  anchorage  at  Cape  Breton,  and  word  was 


[  10  ] 

sent  to  Nicholson,  who  tore  off  and  stamped  on  his  wig 
and  yelled  with  rage,  but  could  only  burn  his  barracks 
and  disband  his  army,  save  a  small  force  to  guard  the 
frontiers.  France  shortly  occupied  the  Champlain 
country  and  built  Louisbourg,  to  guard  against  the 
double  danger  to  Canada  from  the  east  and  south. 

The  diarist,  Rev.  Thomas  Buckingham,  was  the 
grandson  of  Thomas,  who  came  to  Boston  in  1637  with 
Eaton,  Hopkins,  Davenport,  and  Prudden,  removed 
with  them  to  New  Haven,  and  in  1639  to  Milford; 
where  his  son,  our  subject's  father,  was  elder  of  the 
church  and  sergeant  of  militia.  The  diarist,  born 
March  1,  1671,  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1690,  and  in 
1694  was  appointed  pastor  of  the  Second  Church  at 
Hartford,  in  succession  to  its  first  minister.  Rev.  John 
Whiting.  Shortly  afterward  he  married  the  daughter 
of  the  late  pastor  of  the  First  Church,  Isaac  Foster. 
His  ministry  lasted  thirty-seven  years;  and  if  he  can- 
not be  styled  an  intellectual  leader,  he  seems  to  have 
been  a  fair  mate  for  the  average  upper  ranks  of  the 
ministry  in  his  time.  He  approved  the  Saybrook  Plat- 
form ;  and  as  might  be  expected,  disapproved  the  slight 
drift  toward  Episcopacy,  which  established  an  Anglican 
communion  in  Connecticut.  When  the  change  in  loca- 
tion of  the  inchoate  Yale  College  from  Saybrook  was 
mooted,  he  with  the  other  Hartford  minister  (of  the 
First  Church),  Rev.  Timothy  Woodbridge,  advocated 
its  establishment  at  Hartford;  and  when  it  was  finally 
placed  at  New  Haven,  both  let  their  disappointment 
overbalance  their  temper  and  judgment.     They  sup- 


[  11  ] 

ported  eagerly  the  attempt  to  maintain  an  opposition 
college  at  Wethersfield ;  and  when  elected  Representa- 
tives to  the  Assembly  in  1719,  were  not  allowed  to  take 
their  seats  on  the  ground  of  disrespectful  language  or 
accusations.  This  at  least  is  true  of  Mr.  Woodbridge ; 
and  as  Mr.  Buckingham  likewise  did  not  take  his  seat, 
it  probably  includes  him  also.  But  this  soon  passed, 
and  two  sons  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Buckingham  graduated 
at  Yale. 

Mr.  Buckingham  was  chaplain  in  both  the  Port  Royal 
expedition  of  1710  and  the  Wood  Creek  expedition 
of  1711,  to  which  his  diaries  relate.  The  reprint  here 
given  is  not  from  the  original  MS.,  which  is  hopelessly 
lost,  but  from  a  pamphlet  print  of  1825,  whose  editing 
does  no  gi'eat  credit  to  the  original  editor.  Besides 
some  obviously  gross  and  needless  errors,  corrected  in 
the  notes  to  this  edition,  and  other  probable  ones,  there 
are  omissions  which  might  conceivably  have  been  sup- 
plied. We  reprint  also  the  pamphlet  introductions  by 
the  former  editor. 


The 

Private  Journals 

Kept  By 

REV.  JOHN  BUCKINGHAM 

Of  The 

Expedition  Against  Canada, 

In 

The  Years  1710  &  1711. 


From  the  Original  Manuscripts. 


New  York:     Wilder  &  Campbell. 


1825 
INTRODUCTION 


The  Diaries  from  which  the  following  extracts  are 
made,  were  written  by  JNIr.  Buckingham,  Minister  of 
the  second  presbyterian  church  in  Hartford,  Connect- 
icut, during  the  expeditions  against  Canada,  in  1710 
and  1711,  undertaken  by  the  Colonies  at  the  order  of 
Queen  Anne.  The  orthography  in  the  following  pages 
is  generally  modernized. 


[  13] 

An  expedition  had  been  formed  in  the  year  1709 
against  Montreal  and  Quebec,  for  which  nearly  3000 
men  were  furnished  in  quotas  by  the  Colonies,  but  it 
had  entirely  failed,  because  the  English  fleet  and  troops 
which  were  intended  to  cooperate,  were  unexpectedly 
despatched  to  Portugal.  The  troops  suffered  much  by 
sickness,  but  never  came  into  action. 

On  account  of  the  frontiers  being  continually 
harassed  by  parties  of  French  and  Indians,  the  Colonies 
were  extremely  urgent  that  another  attempt  should  be 
made  to  conquer  Canada;  and  General  Nicholson  and 
Colonel  Schuyler  went  to  England  in  the  latter  part  of 
the  year  1709,  to  solicit  the  permission  and  assistance 
of  the  government.  These  were  granted ;  although  the 
government  really  meditated  nothing  further  than  the 
capture  of  Port  Royal  and  Nova  Scotia,  and  actually 
accomplished  only  the  former.  It  is  hardly  necessary 
to  mention,  that  it  is  not  the  importance  of  the  facts, 
but  the  liints  of  the  situation  of  the  country,  which 
have  induced  the  publication  of  these  diaries. 

In  July,  1710,  news  was  received  that  Lord  Shannon 
was  under  sailing  orders  for  America,  and  on  the  18th 
of  September,  a  fleet  of  36  ships  of  war  and  transports, 
part  of  which  had  been  sent  over  from  England, 
sailed  from  Nantasket  for  Port  Royal.  In  these  were 
embarked  all  the  regular  troops  which  had  arrived, 
together  with  the  soldiers  furnished  by  several  of  the 
Colonies.  Fourteen  transports  were  furnished  by 
Massachusetts,  5  by  Connecticut,  2  by  New  Hampshire, 
and  3  by  Rhode  Island;  and  General  Nicholson  was 
invested  with  the  chief  command. 


[   14  ] 

Our  author  accompanied  the  expedition  as  chaplain 
to  the  Connecticut  troops.  On  the  24th  of  September, 
they  arrived  at  Port  Royal,  and  on  the  21st  of  the 
following  month  they  began  a  fire  upon  the  fort,  from 
three  batteries  of  two  mortars  and  twenty-four  cohorns. 
The  Star  bomb-ship  at  the  same  time  threw  shells 
among  the  enemy. 

The  circumstances  attending  the  expedition  up  to 
this  period  appear  to  be  detailed  with  minuteness  in 
the  diary  before  us ;  but  as  the  first  part  of  it  is  written 
in  a  cypher  difiicult  to  understand,  it  will  be  sufficient 
for  the  present  to  publish  only  that  which  is  legible, 
and  which  begins  with  the  capitulation  of  the  fort. 


A  DIARY  OF  THE  NAVAL 

Expedition  against  Port  Royal, 
In  The  Year  1710. 

DIARY,  &c. 


An  account  of  what  I  brought  from  Hartford. 

A  great  coat,  a  new  black  broad-cloth  coat,  a  serge 
coat,  a  drugget  jacket,  a  white  waistcoat,  a  new  pair  of 
serge  breeches,  a  pair  of  leather  ones,  2  sliirts,  3  bands, 
5  handkerchiefs,  (three  white  ones  and  two  Rumals,) 
Stockens,  two  pair  of  grey  ones,  and  one  of  black,  a  new 
pair  of  shoes,  2  pair  of  gloves,  a  hat  new  in  May  last, 
a  Bible  borrowed  of  brother  Samuel  Woodbridge,  a 
psalm  book,  an  ink-horn,  knife  and  fork,  tobacco  box, 
between  twenty  and  thirty  shillings  in  silver,  silver 
shoe  buckles,  small  tobacco  tongs,  a  pen-knife,  two 
napkins. 

An  account  of  my  expenses  and  preparations  in  the 
expedition  against  Port  Royal,  especially  in  things 
taken  up  at  Boston: 

Imprimis.     In  my  Journey  to  Boston, 

2.  To  a  pair  of  stockings, 

3.  Five  yards  black  Russells,  at 

9s.  6d.  - 

4.  Two  yards  Garlick,  at  2s.    - 

5.  One  yard  3-4  Saloone,  at  4s. 


I 

00.  04. 

10 

.     4. 

6 

1.  12. 

6 

4. 

0 

7. 

0 

1. 

8 

6. 

9 

12. 

5 

10. 

1 

7. 

0 

[   16  ] 

I 

6.  To  two  doz.  1-2  buttons,  at  8d.    - 

7.  To  three  bands,  -         -         -         - 

8.  To  a  silk  handkerchief. 

9.  To  the  Taylor  for  mowhair, 

silk  and  making-  my  jacket,  - 

10.  To  a  Knit  waistcoat, 

11.  To  a  pair  of  black  milled  stockins, 

12.  A  loose  gown,  at  Major  Walter's, 

13.  A  grey  drugget  coat, 

14.  And  three  silk  handkerchiefs,     -     9.     7.     0 

15.  A  pair  of  gloves,  &c.  Knit  cap,  both 

given  me  by  JMr.  Wadsworth. 

16.  For  a  great,  and  one  small  tooth  Comb. 

The  Colony  of  Connecticut  debt. 
To  our  expenses  for  my  journey  to  Boston,     0.  14.  00 
To  20s.  delivered  to  Sergi.  Worthington, 
to  pay  his  board  at  Boston,  and  for  his 
horse  and  journey  back,  -         -         -     1.     0.     0 

The  Colony  of  Connecticut  Credit. 

To  four  pounds  in  bills  of  credit  delivered 

to  me  by  INIr.  N.  Stanley,         -         -         -     4.  00.  00 

To  particulars  taken  up  at  ]Ma j .  Wallej^s : 

Imprimis.    To  20  yds.  Damask,  at  2s. 

8d.  per  yd. 2. 

To  six  yrds.  shagg,.        _         .         -         - 
To  a  silk  handkerchief  -         -         -         - 
7  \Tds.  3-4  holland,  at  3s.  lOd.           -         -     1. 
To  thread,  6d. 


13. 

4 

12. 

0 

9. 

8 

6 

[   17  ] 

To  making  to  shirts,       -         -         - 
To  making  a  gown,        -         -         - 
8  yrds.  drugget,  at  4s.  per  yrd. 
5  yrds.  shalloon,  at  3s.  6d. 
3  doz.  buttons  at  16d. 
To   Buckram   tape,    silk,   mowhair,    and 
making  the  coat,  -         -         _ 


I 

5. 

0 

3. 

0 

■    1. 

12. 

0 

17. 

6 

4. 

0 

■    1. 

4. 

0 

9. 

5. 

6 

October  2}  Monday,  Hostages  exchanged  between 
the  camp  and  fort.  Those  on  our  part  were  Colonel 
Reading  and  Capt.  Matthews ;  on  the  French  side  were 
the  Deputy  Governor  and  Commissary. 

One  of  the  Falmouth's  men  unfortunately  killed  by 
his  fellow,  as  they  were  shooting  at  swine.  Capt. 
Fatherly,  commander  of  one  of  our  transports,  who 
had  been  out  on  a  cruize,  brought  in  hither  thirteen 
men  taken  by  a  French  privateer,  and  set  on  shore  at 
the  mouth  of  this  harbor. 

5.  Thursday.  The  garrison  marched  out  with  the 
usual  marks  of  honor:  drums  beating,  colours  flying, 
&c.  about  four  o'clock  afternoon,  at  what  time  a 
detachment  from  the  several  regiments  marched  into 
the  fort,  and  took  possession  of  it.  The  rest  of  the 
army  returned  to  their  camp.  The  union  flag  being 
hoisted,  the  cannon  of  the  fort  and  men  of  war  were 
discharged. 

^O.  S.     The  New  Style  was  not  adopted  by  England  till  1752. 


[  18  ] 

9.  Monday.  Our  troops,  excepting  those  that  are 
to  keep  garrison  here  this  winter,  were  embarked  in 
order  to  their  being  transported  into  their  own  country. 

The  Summons  sent  into  the  Fort. 
Francis  Nicholson,  Esq.  General  and  Commander  in 
Chief  of  all  her  Majesty's  of  Great  Britain's  forces 
now  before  Port  Royal, 

To 
Monsieur  Subercase,  Knight  of  the  military  order  of 
St.  Louis,  &c.   Governor  for  the  French  King  of 
L'Acadie  and  Port  Royal. 

You  are  hereby  required  and  commanded  to  deliver 
up  to  me  for  the  Queen  of  Great  Britain  the  Fort  now 
in  your  possession,  as  what  of  right  belongs  to  her 
now  said  Majesty,  together  with  all  the  territories 
under  your  command,  by  virtue  of  an  undoubted  right 
of  her  Royal  predecessor;  and  that  together  with  all 
cannon,  mortars,  magazines  of  war,  and  troops  under 
your  command;  otherwise  I  shall  endeavor  to  reduce 
forthwith  the  same  by  force  of  her  majesty's  arms. 
Given  under  my  hand  and  seal  this  first  day  of  October, 
in  the  ninth  year  of  the  reign  of  our  Sovereign  Queen 
Anne,  by  the  Grace  of  God  Queen  of  Great  Britain, 
France  and  Ireland,  Defender  of  the  Faith.  Anno 
Domini  1710. 

Nicholson. 

The  Answer,  done  in  English,  &c. 
Sir:  I  have  just  now  received  by  one  of  j^our  Colonels 
and  another  officer  of  your  army,  a  summons  to  sur- 


[  19  ] 

render  unto  you  the  fort  which  my  King  hath  left 
under  my  care,  and  that  upon  a  pretence  which  I  believe 
is  not  well  grounded ;  nevertheless,  to  avoid  the  effusion 
of  blood,  and  expecting  the  decision  of  your  pretended 
right,  (which  without  doubt  shall  have  its  place  in  its 
time,)  I  will  hear  the  proposal  of  an  honorable  and 
advantageous  capitulation,  which  I  know  how  to  make 
good  by  a  vigorous  defence,  which  all  my  officers  desire : 
for  that  purpose,  Sir,  you  may  choose  two  of  your 
officers,  and  I  shall  give  as  many  of  mine,  whom  I 
shall  send  into  the  camp,  if  you  send  me  a  good  pass- 
port and  some  hostages,  so  that  I  may  treat  with  surety, 
and  to  whom  I  shall  give  a  project  of  my  pretences. 
Sir,  this  is  all  I  can  saj^  to  you  at  present ;  and  I  finish 
in  assuring  you  that  I  am  your  most  humble  and 
obedient  servant: 

SUBERCASE. 

At  Port  Royal,  12  Oct.  N.  S.  1710. 

Articles  of  capitulation  agreed  for  the  reduction  of 
Port  Royal  Fort  in  L'Acadie,  between  Mr.  Daniel 
Auger  DeSubercase,  Esqr.  of  the  military  order  of 
St.  Louis,  Governor  under  his  most  Sacred,  most  Chris- 
tian Majesty,  &c.  and  Mrs.  [Sic']  Francis  Nicholson, 
General  and  Commander  in  Chief  of  the  troops  belong- 
ing to  her  sacred  majesty  Anne,  Queen  of  Great 
Britain. 

1.  That  the  Garrison  shall  go  out  with  arms  and 
baggage,  beating  the  drum,  and  colours  flying. 

2.  That  we  shall  have  good  vessels,  with  sufficient 
provision  to  carry  us  to  Rochel  or  to  Rochfort  by  the 


•       [  20  ] 

nearest  way,  where  the  said  vessels  shall  receive  a  good 
passport  for  their  returning  home. 

3.  That  I  shall  have  liberty  to  take  six  pieces  of 
cannon,  to  my  choice,  with  two  mortars,  to  my  choice 
also. 

4.  That  the  officers  shall  carry  away  all  their  effects, 
of  what  nature  they  may  be;  or  they  shall  have  liberty 
to  sell  them  to  the  best  advantage ;  the  payment  thereof 
shall  be  made  faithfully. 

5.  That  the  inhabitants  within  cannon  shot^  of  the 
fort  may  stay  upon  their  estates,  and  enjoy  their  grain, 
vessels  and  immoveables,  for  the  space  of  two  years, 
if  they  do  not  choose  to  go  before  that  time;  and  that 
those  that  shall  be  willing  to  stay,  shall  have  liberty  so 
to  do,  provided,  that  they  shall  take  the  oath  of  fidelity 
to  her  sacred  majesty  of  Great  Britain. 

6.  That  the  privateers  belonging  to  the  West  Indies 
shall  have  one  vessel  to  carry  them  home. 

7.  That  those  that  shall  be  willing  to  retire  them- 
selves to  Placentia  in  Newfoundland,  shall  have  the 
liberty  by  the  nearest  way. 

8.  That  the  Canadians  and  others  that  have  a  mind 
to  go  to  Canada,  may  go  in  the  space  of  one  year. 

9.  That  the  effects,  ornaments  and  utensils  belong- 
ing to  the  Chapel  shall  be  returned  to  the  Chaplain,  with 
the  rest  belonging  to  the  hospital. 

10.  I  promise  to  deliver  the  fort  of  Port  Roj^al  into 
the  hands  of  Francis  Nicholson,  for  the  Queen  of  Great 
Britain,    three    days    after    the    ratification    of    these 

^  Assumed  as  three  miles. 


[  21   ] 

presents  and  agreement,  with  all  the  effects  belonging 
to  the  king,  viz:  cannons  mortars,  bombs,  bullets, 
powder  and  small  arms. 

11.  I  shall  faithfully  discover  all  the  mines  and 
underground  works. 

All  the  articles  of  the  present  agreement  shall  be 
faithful,  [Sic~\  fulfilled,  and  without  difficulty,  and 
signed  on  both  sides. 

Given  at  Port  Royal,  this  13th  of  October,  1710, 
N.  S. 

Nicholson.  '  Subercase. 

General  Nicholsons  Instructions  to  Major  Livingston.^ 
Sir:  If,  upon  your  arrival  at  Canada,*  you  find  it 
consistent  with  her  Majesty's  immediate  service,  make 
all  possible  despatch  back  again  to  New  England  to  me ; 
and  if  I  am  embarked  for  Great  Britain,  take  the  first 
passage,  and  come  over  land  \_Sic~\  to  give  an  account 
of  your  errand,  and  what  may  be  for  the  public  service. 
However,  write  to  me  by  all  possible  conveyances  of 
all  things  relating  to  the  affair  j^ou  go  upon. 

Given  under  my  hand  at  Annapolis  Royal,  this 
16th  October,  in  the  9th  year  of  her  majesty's 
reign,  1710, 

Fr.  Nicholson. 

October  19,  Thursday  1710.  This  morning  at  four 
o'clock  the  signal  was  given  to  unmoor;  about  six  we 
weighed  and  towed  out  of  the  harbour.    We  were  here 

*  Of  the  Connecticut  forces. 

■*  To  announce  the  news  officially  to  the  Government  at  Quebec. 


[  22   ] 

awhile  becalmed  till  about  noon,  when  an  easy  gale 
sprung  up,  and  gently  wafted  us  across  the  bay  to 
[Grand  Manan],  over  against  which  lay  the  Wolves, 
being  per  Ettinalern^  fourteen  leagues  from  the 
entrance  of  Annapolis  Royal  harbor.  The  weather  was 
fair  and  pleasant  and  the  sea  unusually  smooth.  Our 
pilot,  who  had  often  sailed,  told  us  he  never  knew  it 
so  before.  A  great  smile  of  Providence.  We  made  the 
opening  between  Grand  [JNIanan]  and  the  place  called 
the  Wolves  in  good  season,  and  stood  under  our  course 
at  night,  steering  West-south-west,  and  the  wind  being 
East  and  by  South,  blow^ing  very  fresh;  the  night  rainy 
and  the  sea  unquiet  and  much  agitated. 

20.  Friday.  This  morning  we  were  abreast  of  long 
island,  wliich  lieth  about  8  leagues  west^  of  Mount 
Desert ;  having  run,  as  is  concluded,  thirty  leagues  last 
night.  We  spied  five  sail  ahead  of  us;  one  of  which  is 
our  briganteen,  Moses  Mansfield  master.  The  rest, 
part  of  our  fleet  (open  sloops).  Before  sunset  two 
others  came  up  with  us.  We  all  put  into  the  South- 
west harbour,  at  the  Isle  of  Holt,"^  which  is  westward 
twenty-five  leagues  from  Granmenen,  said  to  be  half 
way  by  the  shortest  passage  between  Annapolis  Royal 
and  Nantuchet. 

21.  Saturday.  Early  this  morning  we  left  the  Isle 
of  Holt,^  under  a  fresh  gale.  We  soon  came  up  with 
Malinisns,^  an  island  distant  four  leagues  from  thence. 

^  Evidently  should  be    "Estimation." 

®  South ;   the  author  figures  on  a  western  course. 

"^  Isle  of  au  Haute. 

^  Matinicus. 


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Soon  after  we  made  Mouhegan,®  to  which  from  Mali- 
nisns®  is  reckoned  ten  leagues.  At  night  came  to  an 
anchor  in  Pemmaquid  harbour,  a  little  below  the  ruins 
of  the  fort  built  here  by  the  English.  This  is  said  to 
be  five  leagues  from  Mouhegan^;  so  that  we  have  run 
20  leagues  this  da3\  The  air  thick  and  wet.  We  found 
the  briganteen  and  sloops  that  came  with  us  from  the 
Isle  of  Holt  J  with  fourteen  or  fifteen  fishermen. 

22.  Sabbath.  At  anchor  in  Pemmaquid  Harbour; 
the  wind  against  us  and  very  strong — the  weather  dark 
and  very  rainy,  till  about  an  hour  bj'-  sun  at  night,  when 
the  wind  began  to  shift,  and  the  sky  to  open. 

29.  Monday.  Continued  at  anchor  as  above.  We 
went  on  shore  and  view^ed  the  countrj^  on  both  sides 
the  river.  On  the  south  side  stood  the  fort,  the  ruins 
whereof^ '^  still  remain.  The  land  is  well  cloathed  with 
English  grass,  among  wliich  there  grows  great 
quantities  of  wormwood  and  parsnips,  with  some  apple 
trees,  but  without  fruit.  North-east  from  the  fort,  we 
met  with  several  grave-stones,  with  some  letters 
engraven  on  them,  particularly  on  one  H.  M.  1695; 
near  to  which  are  three  trenches  of  the  Indians,  made 
when  they  landed.  We  crossed  the  river  to  the  oppo- 
site side  for  water.  On  both  sides  were  plain  paths, 
made,  as  we  judged  by  the  Indians  that  inhabit  or  fre- 
quent this  place,  with  other  evident  tokens  of  their 
having  been  very  lately  here. 

24.     Tuesday.    Windbound  at  Penmiaquid. 

®  Monhegan. 

^'^  Andros'  fort  of  1677,  destroyed  by  the  Indians  in  1689;  not 
the  old  Popham  fort,  long  vanished. 


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25.  Wednesday.  This  morning,  or  rather  late  last 
night,  the  open  sloops  and  shallops,  in  all  twenty-one, 
sailed  out  of  this  harbour.  About  ten  the  ships  and 
briganteen  bound  for  New  London  weighed;  but  for 
want  of  wind  were  obliged  to  anchor  again  about  noon. 
The  wind  freshened  then,  and  we  came  to  sail ;  the  wind 
proving  scanty,  and  the  weather  looking  doubtful  and 
lowering,  we  tacked  twice  and  stood  in  for  Pemmaquid 
harbour  again;  but  about  sun-down,  the  wind  being 
more  large,  it  was  resolved  to  put  to  sea.  We  had  a 
fresh  gale  and  run  per  estimation,  about  25  leagues. 

26.  Thursday.  This  morning,  early,  we  made  Ago- 
menticus  Hills,  on  our  starboard  bow,  which  is  accounted 
25  leagues  to  the  west  of  Pemmaquid.  The  night  was 
clear  and  the  sea  smooth. 

About  12  or  10  o'clock,  we  made  Cape  Ann^~;  by 
night  were  almost  up  with  it:  but  not  being  able  to 
fetch  it,  resolve  to  ....  it  to  windward.  About 
12  at  night  we  parted  from  the  briganteen. 

27.  Friday  in  the  morning  put  into  Cape  Ann.  In 
the  evening  Lieutenant  Cyp.  NichoUs,^^  with  about 
fifty  soldiers  belonging  to  our  regiment,  came  on  shore, 
in  order  to  march  home  by  land.  They  went  out  of 
town  a  little  after  sun-set. 

28.  Saturday.    Wind-bound  in  Cape  Ann  harbour. 

29.  Sabbath.  At  Cape  Ann.  I  lodged  at  Mr. 
White's.    Preached  1st  John,  3,  8  latter. 

^^  Gloucester. 

^^  Of  Hartford,  a  parishioner  of  Mr.  Buckingham's. 


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30.  Monday.  Mr.  Christophers^^  and  myself,  hav- 
ing provided  horses  and  a  pilot,  set  out  for  Boston. 
We  passed  through  jSIanchester,  (commonly  called 
Jeffrey's  Creek,  reckoned  seven  or  eight  miles  from 
Gloucester,  or  Cape  Ann,)  and  Beverty,  (seven  miles 
from  thence,  Mr.  Blower  minister, )  we  crossed  the  ferry 
to  Salem  for  sixpence  a-piece.  Dined  at  Pratt's,  paid 
for  ourselves,  five  in  all,  and  our  horse-meat,  7s.  Id. 
From  hence  we  travelled  15  miles  for  Boston.  A  stone 
set  up  at  the  end  of  each  mile,  ^vith  figures  marked  on 
both  sides,  signifj^ng  the  distance  to  and  from  those 
extremes  between  Salem  and  Boston.  In  this  road  lie 
the  following  to^\Tis:  Ljmn,  Rumle,  jNIarsh.^^  We 
arrived  at  Winnesimit^^  about  an  hour  after  sun-set, 
(calling  by  the  way  at  Lewis's,)  here  we  paid  our  pilot, 
(his  father  refusing  to  agi'ee  with  us,  and  referring  the 
matter  to  his  son,)  for  his  journey  and  the  two  horses 
we  rode  upon,  the  sum  of  thirty  shillings,  which  he 
demanded — an  unconscionable  and  extravagant  price. 
Quickly  after  we  came  liither,  we  look  about,  \^prohably 
some  omission,~\  and  the  wind  being  fair  and  blowing 
fresh,  had  a  quick  and  easy  passage  to  Boston. 

31.  Tuesday.     Lodged  at  Mr.  Gosse's. 
November  1.    Went  over  to  Roxbury. 

2.  Thursday.  Lodged  last  night  at  Mr.  Wallet's. 
This  day  arrived  here,  one  Lathrop,  from  the  west- 
ward, bringing  the  sad  tidings  of  a  ship  driven  ashore 
on  the  back  side  of  Cape  Cod,  all  her  masts  gone.    They 

^*  The  Commissary. 

^^  Rmnley  (Romney)  Marsh. 

"  Chelsea. 


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saw  some  men  on  shore — a  sailor  on  board,  said 
Lathrop,  concludes,  it  to  be  the  Mary,  galley,  the  big- 
gest of  Connecticut  transports,  belonging  to  Mr.  Try- 
land,  Capt.  Clark  Commander.  We  left  about  thirty 
people  in  her  at  Cape  Ann. 

3.     Friday This  morning  our  General,  of 

all  men  one  of  the  most  Generous,  sent  me  per  Mr, 
Bertrand,  Junior,  the  sum  of  fifty  shillings,  to  bear  my 
expenses  home.    A  liberal  man  studies  liberal  things. 

6.  Monday.  Bought  of  Mr.  Philips  a  bible,  which 
cost  me  12  shillings.  Paid  to  Mr.  Campbell,  post 
master,  seven  shillings,  being  the  arrearage  due  for  the 
year  1710. 

7.  Tuesday I  [Took]  my  journey  from 

Boston  about  8  in  the  morning.  We  came  to  Mr.  Devo- 
tion's at  night.  The  way  thus:  we  travelled  from  Bos- 
ton to  Dedham,  10  miles;  from  thence  to  Whites,  6; 
from  thence  to  Billings's,  6;  from  Billings's  to  Devo- 
tions, 10.  I  paid  for  horse-meat  at  Fishers,  fourpence; 
at  White's,  a  groat  a^^iiece;  and  at  Billings's,  for  our 
dinner  and  oats,  Is.  which  Mr.  Deming  paid.  Weather 
and  ways  dirty.  Paid  to  Bennet,  for  keeping  my  horse, 
from  thursday  to  this  morning,  four  shillings. 

8.  Wednesday.  For  myself  and  horse  16  at  Devo- 
tions. We  mounted  about  sunrise,  and  travelled  this 
day  to  Irish's,  about  ....  miles  according  to  the 
following  estimation:  From  Devotions  to  Freeman's, 
five;  from  thence  to  Whipples,  where  it  cost  me  for 
horse-meat  and  ferriage  six  pence;  from  thence  to 
Providence,  five;  from  thence  to  Tanner's  (where  for 
horse-meat  3d  more,)    five;    from  thence  to  Abbot's, 


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two  and  half;  from  thence  to  Cooper's,  eleven — here  I 
paid  a  shilling  for  oats  and  a  dram,  whereof  six-pence 
belonged  to  Mr.  Denning;  from  Cooper's  to  White's, 
3  miles. 

9.  Thursday.  We  travelled  this  day  from  Smiths 
to  Windliam.  The  distances  between  those  places,  thus 
reckoned:  from  Smith's  to  Whitney's,  at  Planefield 
four  and  an  half;  from  thence  to  Cleaveland's,  four; 
from  Cleaveland's  to  the  river,^^  four;  from  the  river 
to  the  town,  six — in  all  about  nineteen  miles.  We  paid 
at  Smith's  for  ourselves  and  horses  3s.  3d.  the  half  of 
it  mine  excepting  a  small  matter  for  oats,  that  Mr. 
D At  Whitney's,  our  breakfast  and  horse- 
meat,  19d.  a  very  reasonable  lay.  At  Cleaveland's,  for 
ferriage,  oats  and  a  quart  of  cyder,  12d.  The  two  last 
sums  I  paid,  and  so  discounted  with  my  companion. 

10.  Friday.  I  left  two  shillings  at  Mr.  Webb's  of 
Windham,  for  the  man  (one  Hybert,)  that  brought  my 
horse  from  Hartford;  being  what  he  demanded  for 
that  service.  I  paid  also  to  the  same  person  two  French 
gi'oats  for  piloting  us  over  the  river,  about  five  miles 
from  hence.  Left  Mr.  Williams  his  horse  in  the  hands 
of  the  constable,  to  be  conveyed  to  Mansfield.  Got  a 
pair  of  old  shoes  set  on  my  horse,  one  of  which  I  had 
of  Mr.  Webb,  for  which  he  demanded  six-pence ;  which 
with  half  a  pint  of  rum  I  had  of  him,  he  charged  the 
country  with. 

Returned  to  my  own  house  about  eight  o'clock  at 
night,  when  I  had  the  satisfaction  of  seeing  mj^  family 
in  good  health,  (blessed  be  God,)  after  a  long  absence 
from  them. 

^^  Appaquag  or  Little  River,  bordering  Canterbury  and  Scotland. 


A  Diary  of  The 

LAND  EXPEDITION 

Against 

CROWN  POINT 

In  The  Year  1711. 

INTRODUCTION 


General  Nicholson  made  another  voyage  to  England 
after  the  capitulation  of  Port  Royal,  to  ask  leave  for 
another  expedition  against  Canada.  The  ministry 
unexpectedly  consented;  and  in  June,  1711,  a  fleet 
of  twelve  men  of  war  arrived  at  Boston,  but  without 
either  pilots  or  provisions.  The  northern  colonies,  how- 
ever, raised  large  supplies  of  provisions  and  men  with 
great  promptitude;  and  on  the  20  of  July,  the  fleet, 
under  Admiral  Walker,  sailed  for  the  St.  Lawrence, 
being  encreased  by  the  addition  of  three  English  ships 
before  on  the  coast,  forty  transports,  six  store  ships, 
and  a  heavy  train  of  artillery  and  ammunition. 

General  Nicholson  had  the  command  of  the  army 
which  was  assembled  at  Albany,  and  consisted  of  about 
four  thousand  men  furnished  from  the  colonies.  Colonel 
Whiting  commanded  the  Connecticut  troops.  Colonel 
Schuyler  those  of  New  York,  and  Colonel  Ingoldsby 
those  of  New  Jersey. 


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DIARY,  &c. 


August  8,  1711.  An  account  of  what  I  brought 
from  home  and  carry  with  me  in  the  present  expedition 
against  Canada; 

1.  A  black  broad-cloth  coat, 

2.  A  grey  coloured  coat, 

3.  A  jacket  Russells, 

4.  A  black  drugget  jacket, 

5.  A  little  white  jacket, 

6.  A  pair  of  black  serge  breeches, 

7.  A  pair  of  black  drugget  breeches,  new, 

8.  Two  Holland  shirts,  very  good, 

9.  Two  speckled  shirts,  one  taken  up  on  the  Coun- 

try account  at  Capt.  Whiting's,  the  other  at 
Mr.  Doly's. 

10.  Four    pair    of    stockings,    one    black    worsted, 

another  mixed  worsted  taken  up  at  Capt. 
Whiting's,  on  the  Country  account,  the  other 
two  home- spun  grey. 

11.  Two  pair  of  shoes,  one  new  of    ...    .  King, 

with  a  pair  of  silver  buckles. 

12.  Five    coloured    handkerchiefs;     two    silk,    one 

cotton,  and  if  I  mistake  not,  taken  up  at  Jona- 
than Arnold's,  two  rumals,  one  *  *  *  *  at 
Capt.  Whiting's. 

13.  Three  bands,  and  two  pair  of  gloves, 

14.  A  Portmantle  with  lock  and  key, 

15.  One  bottle  of  mint-water,  and  another  of  rum 

and  clove-water  mixed  together. 

16.  Two  galley-pots,  with  essence  of  roses, 


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17.  A  mail  pillion,   Snapsack,   a  razor,   a  ball  of 

coquolate,  sope,  a  quire  and  half  of  paper,  a 
knife  and  fork  in  a  case  Jack,  a  steel  tobacco 
box. 

18.  A  cartouch  box,  a  gun  boot  and  powder  horn 

with  the  union  flag  cut  out  upon  it,  and 
Indian  string  to  hang  it  on. 

19.  Two  white  handkercheifs. 

20.  A  silver  seal  with  about  five  and  twenty  shillings 

in  silver. 

21.  An  ink-horn  and  tobacco  stopper,  with  two  little 

brass  pipes  upon  it. 

22.  A  bible.  Psalm  book,  Milton  on  Comus,  and 

many  notes. 

23.  A  knit  wastecoat  and  little  penknife. 

The  prices  of  several  things. 
Four  yards  of  Garlick  Holland,  att 

3s  4d. 

Fan, 

Pins  of  sorts,  one  22d,  the  other  19,  - 
A  baby,  ----- 

A  silk  musling  handkerchief,  - 
A  pair  of  sizers,^  _  _  -  - 
Three  thirds^  alimole,  at  5s  pr.  yd.  - 
A  London  Baby,  -  -  -  - 
A  pound  of  Coquolate,  -  -  - 
Three  quarters  a  yard  calico,  - 


^  Scissors. 

^  An  obvious  mistranscription  of  the  diarist's    "Yrds.' 


I 

0. 

13. 

4 

1. 

4 

1. 

8 
3 

4. 

6 
8 

1. 

4. 

0 

4. 

6 

2. 

4 

3. 

2 

2. 

15. 

9 

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These  sent  to  Hartford  to  my  wife,  by  Sergt.  Worth- 
ington,  Sept.  8,  1710. 

I  sent  home  my  silver  seal,  tobacco  stopper,  and 
cartouch  box,  by  Samuel  Cole  of  Hartford. 

Aug.  8.    Wednesday.    At  'New  Haven. 

9.  Thursday.  Thi'ee  companies,  viz:  L.  Colo.  Liv- 
ingston's, Major  Burr's  and  Capt.  Crane's,  marched 
out  of  New  Haven,  with  whom  went  Mr.  Edwards. 

10.  The  rest  of  our  troops  marched  out  of  this  town. 

13.  jNIonday.    We  halted  at  Woodbury. 

14.  Tuesday.  We  went  from  thence  to  Sackets 
farm.  From  Woodbury  to  this  place  may  be  reckoned 
74  miles:  12  to  ...  .  12  to  Swift  river,  14  to  the 
fort.  About  a  mile  of  the  dwelling  house  is  a  river 
very  difficult  to  pass,  by  reason  of  the  steepness  of  the 
banks;  and  about  a  mile  short  of  this  is  a  very  miry 
place,  which  is  avoided  by  winding  round  to  the  left. 
My  horse  fell  under  me,  and  rolled  on  my  left  leg,  but 
without  hurt. 

15.  Wednesday.  We  lodged  at  Dyckman's  on  the 
manor.  From  Sacket's  farm  to  this  place  is  counted  32 
miles. 

16.  Thursday.  Lodged  at  Kenderhook,  29  distant 
from  the  Bush  .  .  .  .,  viz:  12  from  thence  to  Claver- 
ack,  12  more  to  this  place. 

17.  Friday.  We  arrived  at  Greenbush  about  three 
in  the  afternoon.  From  Kenderhook  to  this  place  they 
coimt  29  miles.  We  passed  a  small  river  about  midway. 
Our  course  from  Dickerman's  hither  is  northerly, 
through  pine  plains,  for  the  most  part  a  very  good 
road. 


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19.  Sabbath.  Preached  from  Psalm  20,  3.— The 
rest  of  Colonel  Schuyler's  regiment  embarqued  in  the 
evening  upon  battoes  and  stood  for  the  flats. 

21.  Tuesday.  Four  companies  of  Colonel  Ingolds- 
by's  regiment  embarqued  for  the  flats.  The  chaplains 
were  ordered  a  regimental  suit,  fusee,  and  accoutre- 
ments. Accordingly  Mr.  Edwards  and  myself  went 
to  the  commissary  and  took  them  up.    *    *    * 

28.  Thursday.  The  remainder  of  the  regular 
troops,  encamped  on  the  south  river  of  Albany,  struck 
their  tents,  in  order  to  their  embarquing;  but  finding 
their  battoes  very  leaky,  were  obliged  to  pitch  them 
again. 

(Transcribed  out  of  the  London  Gazette.) 

"Our  advices  from  Poland  import  that  Prince  Galizzyn 
had  defeated  a  considerable  body  of  Tartars,  and  taken 
from  them  five  thousand  horses;  that  the  Palatine  of 
S — via  was  missing,  and  according  to  the  report  in  the 
Muscovite  army,  among  the  slain ;  that  the  Tartars  are 
retired  to  their  own  habitations,  dissatisfied  with  their 
expedition. 

According  to  advices  from  Belgrade  and  .... 
all  the  Cossacks  have  declared  for  the  Muscovites,  and 
most  of  the  Tartars  volunteered  to  go  to  their  own 
habitations — that  the  INIuscovites  had  defeated  the 
Turks  near  Bender  and  pillaged  the  place.  Her 
majesty  has  been  pleased  to  constitute  and  appoint 
Col.  Wm.  Tayler,  Adjutant  General  of  the  Massachu- 
setts province." 


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24.  Friday.  This  day  three  of  our  companies,  viz: 
Capt  Crane's,  Capt.  Wood's  and  Capt.  Dimond's, 
embarqued  for  Half  Moon,  including  those  who  were 
appointed  to  drive  and  goad  the  cattle  that  go  for  their 
subsistence.  Col.  Whiting  came  in  to  the  camp.  About 
four  hundred  of  the  ....  [Five]  nations  of 
Indians  came  into  Albany. 

25.  Saturday.  Yesterday  I  paid  to  my  Tayler, 
Sergt.  Wallis,  eight  shillings  in  silver  towards  making 
mj''  blew  coat,  laid  out  above  four  in  coquolate,  ginger- 
bread and  pipes.  A  pound  of  coquolate  cost  me  2s. 
6d.  18d.  of  gingerbread,  5d.  pipes:  in  all  4s.  5d. — 
Yesterday  received  letters  from  home. 

26.  Sabbath.  Preached  at  Albany  from  Isaiah  3, 
10  &  11. 

Tuesday.  I  left  Albany  about  two  afternoon,  in 
company  of  Col.  Livingstone  and  five  more,  and  came  in 
the  evening  into  the  camp  at  Stillwater,  (wrote  home 
by  Lieutenant  Treat,)  where  is  at  present  general 
health,  and  none  dangerously  sick. 

29.     Wednesday.      Lieut.    General    Schuyler    came 

into  the  camp,  as  also  Col.  Ingoldsby,  Col.  ;    a 

party  of  Indians,  consisting  of  a  captain  and  ten  under 
him  passed  by  this  camp,  as  it  is  suspected,  in  order  to 
get  a  prisoner  at  Canada. 

80.  Thursday.  At  Stillwater,  waiting  for  the 
repairing  our  battoes.  The  Indians  designed  for 
Canada  are  staid  in  this  camp,  and  not  gone.    .    .    . 

31.  Friday.  General  Nicholson  came  into  the  camp 
at  Stillwater,  and  was  received  with  a  tripple  huzza 
from  the  several  regiments  as  he  passed  through  them. 


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The  Ouondagous  and  Caijaijoes,^  about  200  or  250, 
arrived  in  our  camp. 

September  1,  1711.  Sundry  parties  of  Indians  came 
into  the  camp.  It  is  said  in  all  they  make  about  600. 
Twelve  men  from  our  regiment,  and  proportionally 
from  the  rest,  were  detained^  to  drive  cattle  to  Surro- 
togo.  Also  eight  men  out  of  Connecticut  regiment,  and 
so  in  proportion  of  the  rest  were  detached  to  clear  the 
way  to  Surrotogo. 

A  private  sentinel  belonging  to  Col.  Ingoldsby's 
regiment,  was  wounded  in  the  shoulder  by  a  ball  shot 
from  the  other  side  of  the  river,  at  what  time  the 
Indians  there  with  a  running  fire  were  receiving  the 
general.  Yesterday  a  Bullet  from  the  same  quarter 
struck  the  water  within  a  few  yards  of  Captain  Mason, 
as  he  was  standing  on  the  shore,  and  glanced  by  him. 

2.  Sabbath.  We  had  orders  to  strike  our  tents,  and 
embark  for  Surrotogo,  or  the  first  carrpng  place;  but 
were  prevented  by  rain,  and  continued  in  the  camp.  I 
preached  from  Proverbs,  14,  9. 

3.  JNIonday.  Col.  Schuyler's  regiment  and  some 
Indians  embarked  for  the  first  carrying  place;  ours 
about  9,  in  the  morning  followed  them.  We  got  to 
Surrotogo  in  good  time  and  pitched  our  tents  a  little 
above  it  on  the  left  side,  at  the  upper  end  of  it,  about  a 
mile  from  the  first  carrying  place. 

4.  Tuesday.  Mr.  Edwards,  being  under  such  indis- 
position of  body  as  to  forbid  his  proceeding  with  us 
took  his  leave  of  us,  and  embarked,  for  Stillwater,  in 

^  Onondagas  and  Cayugas. 

*  Evidently  should  be    "detailed." 


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order  to  his  return  home.  Our  regiment  decamped, 
and  went  some  by  water  and  some  bj^  land,  to  the  first 
carrying  place,  and  there  pitched  our  tents.  Quickly 
after  our  arrival  in  this  place.  Col.  Schuyler's  regiment 
struck  their  tents,  and  part  of  Col.  Ingoldsby's  came 
hither,  viz:   five  companies. 

5.  Wednesday.  We  decamped  from  the  first  carry- 
ing place,  and  encamped  at  the  second,  having  secured 
our  provisions  and  ammunition  where  we  landed,  viz: 
at  the  falls.  We  took  the  ground  to  the  right  of  Col. 
Schuyler's  regiment,  pitched  our  tents,  and  transported 
our  battoes,  some  on  carriages  and  some  on  men's 
shoulders. 

6.  Thursday.  We  fetched  over  our  stores,  and  put 
our  battoes  into  the  water.  Fair  weather  after  a  wet 
night. 

7.  Friday.  Col.  Schuyler's  and  our  regiment 
decamped  from  the  second  carrying  place,  and 
encamped  by  Fort  Xicholson.  A  Jersey  man  belong- 
ing to  Col.  Schuyler's  regiment,  died  last  night.  Col. 
Whiting  came  into  our  camp  at  the  second  carrjdng 
place,  and  went  with  us  by  water  to  this  encampment. 

8.  Saturday.  Four  out  of  a  company  were  detached 
to  clear  the  way  to  Wood  Creek ;  then  two  men  out  of  a 
company  were  detached,  to  go  with  the  five  nations  to 
Wood  Creek,  upon  advice  of  our  scouts  sent  thither 
3'esterday,  had  made  some  discovery  of  the  enemy  being 
there.  It  is  said  that  one  of  them  going  back  to  fetch 
his  hatchet  and  knife,  which  he  had  left  where  they 
halted,  at  Fort  Ann,  missed  the  same  and  saw  the 
tracks   of   Indians   there. — Our    scout   returned    from 


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Wood   Creek,  without  making  any  discovery  of  the 
enemy. 

9.  Sabbath.  A  detachment  was  sent  out  to  clear 
the  waye.  I  preached  in  the  forenoon  from  Exodus, 
23 :  25  and  26 ;  and  in  the  afternoon  on  Deuteronomy 
5:32  and  33. 

About  20  of  the  Synackes'^  offered  themselves  to  fetch 
a  prisoner  from  Canada ;  but,  the  General  being  absent, 
were  not  permitted  to  go.  In  the  evening  several  com- 
panies of  the  regular  troops  came  into  the  camp  in  this 
place,  and  pitched  their  tents  by  the  river. — Cloudy 
weather,  with  some  sprinlding  of  rain. 

10.  JNIonday.  Lieutenant  Gen.  Schuyler  marched, 
with  several  companies  of  his  regiment  and  many  of  the 
five  nations.  There  went  also  between  30  and  40 
wagons,  some  carrying  battoes — about  20;  the  rest 
loaden  with  stores.  These  guarded  by  a  detachment 
from  the  Dutch  and  New  England  troops.  General 
Nicholson  came  into  the  camp,  as  also  the  rest  of  the 
irregular  forces  from  the  last  carrying  place.  By  order 
from  the  General  the  drum  beat  to  arms,  &c.  A  post 
from  New  England  with  letters  to  the  General  and 
some  other  arrived  here  this  d?ij — Cloudy,  moist  and 
rainy  weather. 

11.  Tuesday.  More  wagons  and  trucks,  with  men 
to  guard  them,  and  mend  the  roads,  went  for  Wood 
Creek.  The  General  forbad  all  communication  between 
the  Indians  and  our  camp. — Four  Indians  belonging  to 
Capt.  Shaw's  company  committed  to  our  guard,  and 
laid  neck-and-heels,  by  their  General's  order,  for  trad- 

°  Senecas. 


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ing  with  the  Five  Nations.  I  wrote  home  a  journal 
of  our  march  and  encampments  to  this  day.  In  the 
middle  of  the  day  fair  and  warm  weather. 

12.  Wednesday.  This  day  morning  the  camp  laws 
were  again  read  to  our  people ;  and  oh !  that  they  were 
duly  and  impartially  executed.  A  scout  sent  out  by 
Col.  Schuyler  returned  into  the  camp  at  Wood  Creek, 
excepting  one,  who  is  supposed  to  desert  to  the  French. 
We  came  from  Canada  in  company  with  those  French- 
men who  were  detained  at  Albany.  He  left  them  at 
the  Lake  Succuman.''  This  day,  as  the  preceeding, 
spent  in  carrying  over  Colonel  Schuyler's  battoes  and 
stores.  Several  of  Col.  Ingoldsby's  regiment  tied  neck- 
and-heels,  for  going  into  the  Indians  camp,  contrary 
to  the  orders  published  on  the  11th  instant.  Moderate 
weather;  sometimes  cloudy  and  foggy,  with  sprinkling 
of  small  rain. 

13.  Thursday.  A  clear  and  warm  morning.  Col. 
Livingston  was  sent  to  take  care  about  clearing  Wood 
Creek.  Capt.  Mason,  ^^ath  a  detachment  of  our  regi- 
ment, to  carry  the  Queen's  and  General's  stores  to  the 
camp  above ;  for  vv^hich  purpose  about  40  of  our  troops 
were  employed. — Fair  and  warm  weather. 

14.  Friday.    I  wrote  home  by  the  post.    Our  troops 

employed  in  carrying  over  Capt.  Stores.     Our 

Indians  were  sent  with  G.  Woodcock,  fourscore  Indians 
and  six  Dutchmen,  sent  out  from  the  camp  at  Wood- 
Creek  in  quest  of  a  party  of  the  enemy,  supposed  to  be 

^Sacrement;  i.  e..  Lake  George.  The  minister's  ear  for  French 
was  not  so  good  as  a  diarist's  of  the  French  and  Indian  War,  who 
sets  it  down  as    "S cocker romah." 


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about  twenty,  whose  tracks  were  discovered  about  ten 
miles  distant  from  the  camp. — Clear  and  moderate 
weather. 

15.  Saturday.  This  morning  three  companies  of 
Connecticut  regiment,  viz:  L.  C.  Livingston's,  Crane's 
and  Mason's,  marched  for  Wood  Creek. 

16.  Sabbath.  Three  companies  of  Col.  Ingoldsby's 
regiment  marched  out  of  this  camp  for  Wood  Creek. 
An  Indian  wounded  one  of  our  regiment  in  the  upper 
camp,  with  a  knife;  and  supposing,  as  it  is  thought, 
that  he  had  mortally  wounded  him,  came  down  to  the 
General  for  a  pardon. — I  preached  on  Proverbs  18.  10. 

A  party  of  our  Indians,  w^ho  were  sent  out  some  days 
ago  in  quest  of  another  of  the  enemy,  happened  to  light 
upon  the  tracks  of  some,  which  they  followed;  and  in 
a  place  where  they  made  an  halt,  one  of  them  espied  a 
piece  of  leather  lying  under  a  bush.  This  proved  an 
Indian  shoe,  or  part  of  one,  in  which  he  found  a  leaded 
ink-case,  and  a  piece  of  paper  giving  an  account  of 
several  parties,  in  all  amounting  to  the  number  of  an 
hundred  and  fourscore,  nine  French  and  the  rest 
Indians,  said  to  be  detachments  from  nine  nations, 
under  the  conduct  of  two  French  Officers.  The  paper 
relates  the  number  of  each  party,  and  the  names  of 
those  that  make  them,  as  also  the  place  to  which  they 
are  assigned. — Clear  and  warm  weather. 

17.  Monday.  This  morning  thi'ee  companies  of  Col. 
Ingoldsbj^'s  regiment,  and  two  of  Connecticut,  viz: 
Major  Burr's  and  Capt.  Ward's  marched  towards 
upper  camp. 

Item. — Sergt.  Hall  of  Wallingford  died  this  morn- 


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ing  about  nine  o'clock.  He  was  an  old  man,  and  had 
been  long  sick,  and  hopefully  a  good  man. — The  Gen- 
eral went  for  Wood  Creek.  In  the  evening  Sergt.  Hall 
was  buried;  his  corpse  attended  to  the  grave  by  several 
files  of  musketeers,  and  honored  with  a  triple  discharge 
of  their  pieces. — Fair  and  warm  weather. 

18.  Tuesday.  This  morning  one  Bridgman  (and 
L\Tnan)  of  Northampton  came  express  from  Boston, 
and  with  several  Dutchmen  from  Albany,  by  whom  we 
are  advised  that  yesterday,  about  eight  o'clock  in  the 
morning,  a  Dutchman  as  he  was  threshing  at  ...  . 
about  twelve  miles  from  Albany,  was  taken  captive  by 
six  Indians,  and  carried  away.  They  passed  by  two 
girls,  who  were  surprised  by  that  action  and  told  them 
they  would  do  their  father  no  hurt,  and  he  should  come 
to  them  again  by  and  by. 

An  hundred  Indians  and  ten  christians  were  sent  from 
the  upper  camp  to  Crown  Point,  where  some  think  the 
French  have  taken  ground  before  us.  Several  Indians 
were  seen  to  pass  by  our  camp  through  the  woods,  with 
their  arms  and  packs,  supposed  to  be  on  their  return 
home ;  and  yesterday  20  or  more  were  met  on  the  road, 
going  towards  Albany.  A  party  sent  out,  if  possible, 
to  intercept  the  enemy  that  took  the  Dutchman  yester- 
day. 

Another  parcel  of  our  battoes  carried  over  to  the  head 
of  the  creek  our  horses,  came,  and  returned  thither  with 
stores. 

19.  Wednesday.  Mr.  Sharp,  Chaplain  to  the  regular 
troops,  as  it  is  reported  this  morning,  went  off  privately 
last  night  in  a  bark  canoe,  attended  by  an  Indian,  in 


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order  to  return  home.  This  report  proves  too  true:  he 
is  really  gone.    *    *    *    * 

This  day  I  wrote  home  to  my  wife  and  Mr.  Wood- 
bridge,  and  also  received  letters  from  them,  bj^  which 
I  was  informed  of  the  death  of  Ensign  Bunce,  and  my 
Indian  girl,  and  of  the  sickness  among  our  people  at 
home.  At  the  same  time  an  express  arrived  in  this 
camp,  with  the  very  melancholy  news  of  the  misfortune 
befallen  our  fleet  and  forces  generally  ....  to 
Canada.  The  report  goes,  that  they  lost  eight  trans- 
ports by  a  storm  in  the  river,  and  eight  hundred  and 
fourscore  men;  and  the  rest  so  broken  and  shattered, 
as  it  is  concluded  they  can't  proceed  in  the  expedition. 
An  awful  frown  on  New  England  in  particular,  and 
the  poor  captives  in  the  hand  of  our  anti-christian  and 
pagan  enemies.  Oh,  what  will  those  say;  how  will  they 
triumph  and  blaspheme,  reproach  and  deride!  But 
God  governs. 

20.  Thursday.  This  sad  tidings  was  confirmed  by 
another  express  from  Boston,  who  came  into  the  camp 
last  night.  Our  general  officers,  by  orders  from  the 
General,  are  gone  for  Wood  Creek,  I  suppose,  to  hold 
a  council  upon  it.  Orders  came  down  this  morning  to 
stop  those  what  were  marching  thither;  and  doubtless 
our  expedition  is  at  an  end  for  this  time. 

Capt.  Shaw,  missing  two  of  his  Indians  that  came 
from  the  upper  camp  yesterday,  fears  that  they  are  lost 
or  taken:  the  last  more  probable.  Upon  the  receipt 
of  my  wife's  letter,  I  Avrote  another  this  morning,  which 
goes  with  the  rest  from  hence,  viz.  by  Bridgman  of 
Northampton.    Two  red  coats  that  were  left  at  the  sec- 


[  41   ] 

ond  carrying'  place,  to  guard  some  stores  left  there  by 
the  wagoners,  were  missing  this  morning  by  those  that 
went  to  fetch  up  the  stores.  The  drink — beer  and  rum 
was  most  of  it  gone,  and  no  sign  of  the  men.  It  is  to 
be  feared  thej''  are  killed  or  captived. 

21.  Friday.  Orders  came  down  this  morning  from 
the  upper  camp,  to  put  our  battoes  into  the  water  again, 
and  send  up  the  troops  with  all  haste;  which,  with  the 
horse-men  last  from  Albany,  are  going  with  all  speed. 
A  melancholy  thing  thus  to  be  turned  back — but  God  is 
righteous  in  all  his  ways. 

22.  Lieutenant  Bancroft,  with  20  men  of  our  regi- 
ment, in  ten  of  our  battoes,  fell  away  from  hence  to  the 
great  carrying  place;  as  also  did  a  Captain  and  com- 
pany of  the  regular  troops. 

About  forty  of  our  battoes  were  brought  back  from 
the  head  of  Wood  Creek. — A  post  came  in  from  Albany 
with  letters  from  York,  advising  that  two  ships  were 
arrived  at  that  place  from  Great  Britain;  although^ 
that  Commodore  Little,  in  a  cruise  off  Carthagena,  took 
a  galoon^  and  Vice  Admiral  of  the  fleet  they  were  con- 
voying, who  ISic']  carried  50  brass  gims,  and  had  on 
board,  besides  its  own,  the  loading,  of  a  gallon^  con- 
demned as  unfit  to  put  to  sea.    *    *    *    * 

25.  Sabbath.  I  preached  on  Leviticus  1.  9,  17. — 
More  battoes  and  stores  brought  down  from  above. 

24.  Monday.  Lieut.  Mills,  with  20  men,  went  down 
in  ten  loaden  boats  to  the  second  carrying  place,  as  did 
also  a  captain's  company  of  the  other  regiment.    More 

"^  Should  be    "also." 
®  Galleon. 


[   42  ] 

battoes  from  the  head  of  Wood  Creek.  The  General 
and  Colonel  Schuyler,  with  the  remainder  of  the  troops, 
battoes  and  stores,  came  in  from  the  upper  camp, 
excepting  Lieut.  Colonel  Livingstone,  Major  Burr, 
Capt.  Ward  and  Capt.  Mason,  and  their  companies,  &c. 
25.  Tuesday.  Col.  Livingstone,  Major  Burr,  and 
Captains  Ward  and  Mason,  with  the  rest  of  their  troops, 
battoes  and  stores,  came  down  from  the  upper  camp. 
Col.  Whiting,  Col.  Livingstone's  company  and  Capt. 
Crane's  decamped  from  Fort  Nicholson,  and  came  to 
the  second  carrying  place.  Col.  Whiting's  company 
encamped  where  they  landed,  (26th)  ....  but 
decamped  for  the  second  carrying  place;  as  did  also 
Capt.  Dimon,  Capt.  Crane,  and  Lieut.  Col  Livingstone's 
company.  Part  of  our  own  Colonel's  Company  got  to 
Stillwater  (27th)  in  the  night;  the  rest  came  in  this 
morning,  where  we  found  the  three  companies  above 
named,  and  several  companies  of  the  other  regiments. 
Last  night  died  one  of  our  militia-men  belonging  to 
Farmington. 

28.  Friday.  Lieut.  Col  Livingston,  Captain  Crane, 
Capt.  Mason,  with  the  most  of  their  companies, 
decamped  from  Stillwater,  and  went  down  in  their  bat- 
toes to  Van  Schaick's  ground,  where  they  encamped, 
as  did  also  some  companies  of  the  other  regiments. 

29.  Saturday.  The  rest  of  our  troops,  excepting 
a  detachment  under  the  command  of  Capt.  Schuyler, 
were  left  to  guard  the  remainder  of  our  stores.  We 
marched  down  to  Van  Shaick's,  from  thence  Lieut. 
Col.  Livingstone  and  the  rest  that  came  thither  before 
us,  were  moved  a  little  before  our  arrival,  for  Albany. 

30.  Sabbath.     Last  night  Leander,  an  Indian  that 


[  43  ] 

lived  with  Col.  Whiting,  died.  In  the  morning  eight 
battoes  were  sent  down  to  Albany.  I  came  in  one  of 
them  to  Green  Bush.  In  the  evening  Col.  Whiting  and 
the  rest  of  his  company  came  down  to  Albany. 

October  1.  Monday.  The  rest  of  our  regiment  came 
into  the  camp  below  Albany. 

2.  Tuesday.  This  and  the  preceding  day  taken  up 
chiefly  in  carrying  up  our  battoes  into  the  pasture  below 
the  fort. 

3.  Wednesday.     In  the  old  camp.     Little  business. 

4.  Thursday.  A  general  muster  and  review  in  the 
morning;  the  afternoon  spent  in  shooting,  running, 
wrestling  for  a  guinea,  the  General  gave  to  each  regi- 
ment. In  shooting  and  running  Capt.  Cranes  men  bore 
away  the  prize. — Governor  Saltonstall  came  to 
Albany.    *    *    * 

5.  In  the  old  camp  at  Albany. 

6.  Saturday.  Major  Burr,  vdth  the  troops  belong- 
ing to  New  Haven  and  Fairfield  county  marched  from 
Green  Bush  on  their  return  home. 

7.  Sabbath.  The  rest  of  our  regiments,  under  the 
conduct  of  Capt.  Mason,  with  whom  I  march,  decamped 
from  Green  Bush  and  went  to  Kenderhook — 29  miles. 

8.  Monday.  We  marched  about  22  miles,  and 
encamped  about  4  or  6  from  Housetonsack  river. 

9.  Tuesday.  We  proceeded  about  16  miles  east  of 
that  river ;  23  miles. 

10.  Wednesday.  We  got  into  Westfield'^  at  one  or 
two. 

11.  Thursday.    We  halted  at  Westfield. 

12.  Friday.    I  returned  to  my  family. 
®  Connecticut. 


[  44  ] 

A  Roll  of 

Col.    William  Whiting  his  Company  during  its  being  at  Annapolis 

1710,  to  the   10th. 


William  Whiting, 

Capt. 

The  Time  of  the 

The  Time  of  their 

Lieu- 
tenants. 

James  Lyndsey 
Agnus  Nicholson 

Mens  Death 

Deserting 

Ser- 

John  ]\Iiller 

Taken  the  10th  of  June 

j  eants. 

Daniel  Comstock 
Israel  Bunnel 

Dead,  Feb.  27th 

Corpo- 
rals, 

Ditto  Bunnel 
John  Hays 
David  Palmer 
Ditto  Palmer 

Drum. 

Leander  Munto 

Came  away  August  19th 

Jonathan  Lamb 

Kill'd  June  10th 

Thomas  Elgar 
William  Page 
John  Tuttle 

Run  July  the  15th 
Taken  June  the  10th 

Gershom  Mattoou 

Daniel  Miles 
Jonathan  Ogden 
Abraham  Jump 
Thomas  Leeds 

Run,  July  the  15th 
Taken  June  the  10th 
Taken  June  the  10th 

Joseph  Baker 
Peter  Burnet 

KiU'd  July  15th 

Joseph  Stent 
John  Mackwise 
Thomas  Armstrong 
John  Uick 

Dead,  May  19th 

Came  away  the  31  July 

Benjamin  Tyler 
William  Kerle 

[  45  ] 


Royall,  in  Her  Magisties  Service  from  the  10th.   of  October 
of  October   1711  : 


How  much  due 

to  each  of 

The  Time  of  their  being  in 

them    computing 

Serj  eants 

Her  Majesties  Service 

at  Is  6d  Corporals 

at  Is  and 

Private  Men 

at  8d 

per  diem. 

Two  hunred  forty  three  days 

£ 

18 

Oi 

6 

One  hundred  and  forty  days 

£ 

10 

10 

0 

Two  hund,  twenty  five  days,  as  Serj. 

£ 

16 

17 

6 

One  hundred  &  forty  days,  a  Corpo 

£ 

07 

00 

0 

Three  hundred  sixty  five  days 

£ 

18 

05 

0 

One  hund.  &  forty  days,  as  priv. 

Man 

£ 

Oi 

13 

4 

Two  hund.  Twenty  five  days,  as 

Cor 

£ 

11 

15 

0 

Three  hundred  thirteen  days 

£ 

15 

13 

0 

Two  hundred  forty  three  days 

£ 

08 

02 

0 

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£ 

09 

05 

4 

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£ 

12 

03 

4 

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£ 

08 

02 

0 

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£ 

12 

03 

4 

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£ 

12 

03 

4 

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£ 

09 

05 

4 

Two  hundred  forty  three  days 

£ 

08 

02 

0 

Two  hundred  forty  three  days 

£ 

08 

02 

0 

There  hundred  sixty  five  days 

£ 

12 

03 

4 

Two  hundred  seventy  eight  days 

£ 

09 

05 

4 

Two  hundred  twenty  one  days 

£ 

07 

07 

4 

Three  hundred  sixty  five  days 

£ 

12 

03 

4 

Two  hundred  ninety  four  days 

£ 

09 

16 

0 

Three  hundred  sixty  five  days 

£ 

12 

03 

4 

Three  hundred  sixty  five  days 

£ 

12 

03 

4 

Three  hundred  sixty  five  days 

£ 

12 

03 

4 

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Ebenezer  Cooper 
William  Everett 
John  Morris 
Thomas  Fanning 
Samuel  Munson 
John  Rayment 
James  Cornish 
Ephraim  Bates 
William  Phillips 
Isaac  Ray 
John  Beach 
Joseph  Parks 
Zechariah  Ferris 
Thomas  Devenish 
Ebenezar  Carrington 
Ephraim  Wheeler 
Joseph  Bodman 
David  Lyman 
Thomas  Harris 
Querry  Chearfield 
Joseph  Goodwin 
John  Floyd 
John  Martin 
William  Lee 
William  Parks 
Joseph  Dutton 
Elnathan  Perry 
Samuel  Bartlet 
Edward  Haget 
Joseph  Burton 


Dead,  Feb.  7th 
Dead,  Feb.  23d 
Dead,  Feb.  20 
Dead,  Decemb.  10 
Dead,  Decemb.  1.5ih 
Dead,  Decemb.  19th 
Dead,  Jan.  1 
Dead,  Jan.  3 
Dead,  Jan.  4 
Dead,  Jan.  22 
Dead,  Jan.  19th 
Dead,  Feb.  4th 
Dead,  Feb.  8th 
Dead,  Feb.  2d 
Dead,  Feb.  2d 
Dead,  March  14th 
Dead,  March  20 
Dead,  March  23 
Dead,  March  25 
Dead,  March  28 
Dead,  March  29 
Dead,  April  1 7th 

Dead,  March  24 


A  Roll  of— 


Run,  March  the  30th 
Run,  April  21 


Taken,  June  1 0th 
Taken,  June  10th 


[   47   ] 


Continued. 


Three  hundred  sixty  five  days 
Three  hundred  sixty  five  days 
One  hundred  seventy  one  days 
One  hundred  ninety  three  days 
One  hundred  and  twenty  days 
One  hundred  thirty  seven  days 
One  hundred  thirty  four  days 
Sixty  one  days 
Sixty  six  days 
Seventy  days 
Eighty  three  days 
Eighty  five  days 
Eighty  six  days 
One  hundred  and  four  days 
One  hundred  and  one  days 
One  hundred  and  seventeen  days 
One  hundred  twenty  one  days 
One  hundred  and  fifteen  days 
One  hundred  and  fifteen  days 
One  hundred  fifty  five  days 
One  hundred  sixty  one  days 
One  hundred  sixty  four  days 
One  hundred  sixty  six  days 
One  hundred  sixty  seven  days 
One  hundred  and  seventy  days 
One  hundred  and  sixty  nine  days 
Two  hundred  forty  three  days 
One  hundred  sixty  five  days 
Two  hundred  forty  three  days 
Three  hundred  sixty  five  days 


£    12 

03  4 

£   12 

03  4 

£   05 

14  0 

£   06 

08  8 

£   04 

00  0 

£   04 

11   4 

£   04 

09  4 

£   02 

00  10 

£   02 

04  2 

£   02 

06  10 

£   02 

15  4 

£   02 

16  8 

£   02 

17  4 

£   03 

09  4 

£   03 

07  4 

£   03 

18  0 

£   04 

00  8 

£   03 

16  8 

£   03 

16  8 

£   05 

03  4 

£   05 

07  4 

£   05 

09  4 

£   05 

10  8 

£   05 

11   4 

£   05 

13  4 

£   05 

12   8 

£   08 

02  0 

£   05 

10  0 

£   08 

02  0 

£   12 

03  0 

£  436     17     6 


William  Whiting. 
Memorandum, 
Names  of  the  Men  that  were  taken  the   10th.   of   June,  being  in  the 

Detachment  sent  out  of  the  Garrison  up  the  River  on  that  day. 
John  Miller  Serjeant  1 


Elnathan  Perry 
Thomas  Leeds 
John  Tuttle 


;-  Returned 


Edward  Hacket  ] 
Abraham  Jump  I 


not  returned 


An   Account   of  Pay 


Due  to  Col.   Whitings  Company  whilst    in    Her   Magisties   Service 

at  Annapolis  Royall,  and  of  Payments  made  to  them;  from 

the  10th.  of  October  1710.  to  the  10th.  of  October  1711: 


John  Miller,  Serj. 
To  Sundry  Slops 

To  Sundries  per  Sir  Charles  Hobby 
To  Cash  lent  you 
To  per  Leather  Breeches 
To  Province  Bills 
To  Sundries  per  Mr.  Jackson 
April  12,  1712.     To  paid  to  Madam  Arolt 


Daniel  Comstock,  Serj. 
To  Sundries  per  Mr.  Foxcraft 
To  Sundries  per  Sir  Charles  Hobby 
To  paid  to  William  Leet 
To  Province  Bills  as  per  Receiv'd 
To  Mr.  Jackson 


Dr. 

£   03 

09 

10 

02 

00 

4. 

00 

04. 

0 

00 

10 

0 

00 

10 

0 

00 

01 

4. 

02 

08 

0 

£   09 

03 

6 

Dr. 

£   02 

13 

6 

01 

17 

4< 

01 

19 

0 

02 

00 

2 

00 

07 

6 

£08     17     6 


Hartford,  August  the  12th.     1712. 
Then  Received  of  Col.  William  Whiting   for  Daniel   Comstock, 
the  Sum  of  Tvpo  Pounds  and  Two  Pence,  as  per  Order:    I   say 
received  per  me  for  Service  at  Port  Royal. 

William  Stone. 


John  Hays,  Corp.  Dr. 

To  Sundries  per  Mr.  Foxcraft  £  05  00  5 

To  Sundries  per  Sir  Charles  Hobby  03  15  6% 

To  Sundries  per  Mr.  Jackson  00  02  0 


» 


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I  to  CoUnwii^/ Company  vhilfi  is  Her  Majcftics  Service  at  AmuftBi  "^Sff^ 
and  of  Payments  made  to  them  ;  frpar-the  t  otk  of  08tiir  1 7 1  cy- 
to  thq'  1  crfft  ofOSoi^  17 1 1;  ^ 


[  49  ] 

To  provide  Bills  paid  at  Annapolis  ^00  10  0 

To  Sundries  of  Mr.  Scuyler  03  17  6 

To  Province  Bills  per  me  00  10  0 

To  Ditto  paid  by  Mr.  Borland  04  10  0 


£18     05      5 


Israel  Bunnel,  Serj.  &  Corp.  Dr. 

To  Sundries  of  Foxcraft  £  01  04,  2 

To  Mr.  Jackson  00  06  0 

To  Sir  Charles  02  10  0 

To  Province  Bills  paid  at  Annapolis  00  10  0 

To  Ditto  paid  per  Mr.  Borland  at  Boston  01  10  0 

To  Ditto  paid  my  Self  as  per  Rec.  in  full  17  12  6 

<£  23     12     8 
New  Haven,  December  31st.     1711. 

Received  of  Col.  William  Whiting  the  Sum  of  Seventeen  Pound 
Twelve  Shilling  and  Six  Pence  for  Service  at  Port  Royal :  Received 
per  me.  Israel  Bunnel. 


David  Palmer,  Corp. 
To  Sundries  of  Foxcraft 
To  Sir  Charles 
To  Province  Bills 
To  Sundries  of  Mr.  Scuyler 
To  paid  by  Mr.  Borland 
To  Poundage  and  Hospital 
To  paid  Sam.  Palmer 


Dr. 

£   02 

18 

0 

00 

16 

0 

00 

10 

0 

03 

15 

7 

01 

10 

0 

00 

12 

9 

02 

02 

7 

£  12     04   11 


Hartford,  June  16.     1712. 
Received  of  Col.  William  Whiting  for  my  Brother  David  Palmer, 
the  Sum  of  Two  Pounds  Two  Shillings  and  Seven  Pence  for  his 
Service  at  Port  Royal;   per  his  Order:    I  say  Received  per  me. 

Samuel  Palmer. 


[  50] 


Leander  Munte,  Drum. 
To  Mr.  Foxcraft 
To  Sir  Charles 
To  Province  Bills 
To  paid  in  full 


Jonathan  Lamb, 
To  Mr.  Foxcraft 
To  Sir  Charles 
To  Mr.  Jackson 
To  Province  Bills 
To  Sundries  of  Mr.  Scuyler 


Thomas  Elgar, 
To  Mr.  Foxcraft 
To  Mr.  Jackson 
To  Sir  Charles 

To  Bills  of  Credit  paid  at  Annapolis 
To  Sundries  of  Mr.  Scuyler 


William  Page, 
To  Mr.  Foxcraft 
To  Mr.  Jackson 
To  Sir  Charles 
To  Bills  paid  at  Annapolis 
To  Sundries  of  Mr.  Scuyler 
To  paid  by  Mr.  Borland  of  Boston 
To  a  Jacket 
To  Bills  paid  Sir  Charles  per  your  note 


Dr. 

£01  03  6 

00  06  0 

00  10  0 

13  13  6 


£   15 

13 

0 

Dr. 

£  04> 

11 

2 

02 

05 

0 

00 

02 

6 

00 

10 

0 

03 

17 

6 

£   11 

06 

2 

Dr. 

£   00 

11 

6 

00 

15 

8 

01 

16 

lOVa 

00 

10 

0 

03 

08 

4 

<£  07     02     4 


Dr. 

■£  03 
00 


16     6 
19     8 


03  03     4 
00      10     0 

04  13      1 


01 

10 

0 

00 

18 

0 

00 

10 

0 

:  16 

00 

7 

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[  51  ] 


New  Haven,  October  the  23d.     1711. 
Then   Received   by   my   Order   to   Sir    Charles    Hobby   of   Col. 
William  Whiting,  the  Sum  of  Ten  Shillings  for  Services  at  Port 
Royal.  Per  William  Page. 


John  Tuttle, 
To  Mr.  Foxcraft 
To  Mr.  Jackson 
To  Sir  Charles 
To  Province  Bills  paid  you 
To  Sundries  of  Mr.  Scuyler 


Gershom  Muttoon, 
To  Sundries  of  Foxcraft 
To  Ditto  of  Mr.  Jackson 
To  Sundries  of  Sir  Charles 
To  paid  you  Province  Bills 
To  Sundries  of  Mr.  Scuyler 
To  paid  you  by  Mr.  Borland  of  Boston 


Dr. 

£01  16  3 

01  04  0 

00  18  41/^ 

00  10  0 

04  09  7 


Daniel  Miles, 
To  Sundries  of  Foxcraft 
To  Ditto  of  Jackson 
To  Sundries  of  Sir  Charles 
To  Province  Bills 
To  Sundries  of  Mr  Scuyler 
To  paid  you  by  Mr.  Borland  at  Boston 
To  paid  you  my  Self 


.£13     02     4 

New  Haven,  December  31st.     1711. 
Then  Received  of  Col.  William  Whiting  the  Sum  of  Ten  Shillings 
for  Services  at  Port  Royal:    I  say. 

Per  Daniel  Miles. 


£   08 

18 

2 

Dr. 

£   00 

08 

6 

00 

15 

4 

01 

02 

6 

00 

10 

0 

03 

14 

6 

01 

10 

0 

£   08 

10 

0 

Dr. 

£   00 

18 

5 

00 

18 

9 

05 

02 

4 

00 

10 

0 

Oi 

02 

10 

01 

10 

0 

00 

10 

0 

[52] 


Jonathan  Ogden, 
To  Sundries  to  Foxcraft 
To  Ditto  to  Mr.  Jackson 
To  Sir  Charles 
To  Province  Bills 
To  Sundries  of  Mr.  Scuyler 


Abraham  Jump, 
To  Sundries  of  Mr.  Foxcraft 
To  Ditto  of  Mr.  Jackson 
To  Sundries  of  Sir  Charles 
To  Province  Bills 
To  Sundries  of  Scuyler 


Thomas  Leeds, 
To  Sundries  of  Foxcraft 
To  Ditto  of  Mr.  Jackson 
To  Sundries  of  Sir  Charles 
To  Province  Bills 
To  Sundries  of  Mr.  Scuyler 


Joseph  Baker, 
To  Sundries  of  Foxcraft 
To  Ditto  of  Jackson 
To  Sir  Charles 
To  Sundries  of  Mr.  Scuyler 
To  paid  by  Mr.  Borland 
To  Westcoat  and  Breeches 
To  6  P.  Soap  at  4d  per  Pound 


Dr. 

£00  18  6 

00  10  0 

01  10  2 
00  10  1 
04  04  1 


£   07 

12 

8 

Dr. 

£   03 

02 

9 

00 

09 

7 

01 

17 

03/4 

00 

10 

0 

04 

02 

10 

£   10 

02 

2 

Dr. 

£   01 

08 

6 

00 

11 

6 

01 

04 

6% 

00 

10 

0 

03 

19 

2 

£07  13  2 

Dr. 

£00  16  0 

00  12  8 
02  04  4l^ 

01  14  9 

02  10  0 
02  04  0 
00  02  0 


[  53  ] 

To  Cash  paid  you  £01      10     2 

To  Province  Bills  00     10     0 


£  12     03   11 


Hartford,  February  19th.      1711. 
Received  of  Col.  William  Whiting  the  Sum  of  Thirty  Shillings 
for  Service  at  Port  Royal:    I  say  per  me. 

Joseph  Baker. 


Peter  Burnet, 
To  Simdries  of  Foxcraft 
To  Mr.  Jackson 
To  Sir  Charles 
To  Province  Bills 
To  Sundries  of  Mr.  Scuyler 
To  Poundage  and  Hospital  Money 
To  paid  Mr,  James  Morgan 


Dr. 

£   01 

15 

1 

00 

15 

0 

02 

04 

2 

00 

10 

0 

03 

07 

6 

00 

10 

0 

00 

04 

9 

<£  09     06     8 


Hartford,  March  17th.     1711,  12. 

Received  of  Col.  William  Whiting  the  Sum  of  Four   Shillings 

&   Nine   Pence    for   Peter   Burnet's    Service   at  Port   Royal:     Per 

me  his  Master.  James  Morgan. 


Joseph  Stent, 
To  Svmdries  to  Foxcraft 
To  Mr.  Jackson 
To  Sir  Charles 
To  Province  Bills 
To  Sundries  of  Mr.  Scuyler 
To  Bills  paid  Peter  Tyler 


Dr. 

£   01 

13 

3 

00 

03 

6 

02 

03 

6 

00 

10 

0 

01 

00 

1 

01 

17 

9 

£  07     08     1 


Brandford,  December  31st.     1711. 
Then  Received  of  Col.  William  Whiting  for  Joseph  Stent,  the 
Sum   of  One    Pound   Seventeen   Shillings   and   Nine    Pence,   being 
for  the   said   Stent's    Service    at   Port   Royal:     I    say   per    Order 
Received  per  me.  Peter  Tyler. 


[  54  ] 


John  Mackwise, 
To  Province  Bills^ 
To  paid  you  by  Mr.  Borland 
To  paid  you  at  Hartford  by  my  Self 
To  Capt.  Williams 
To  Cash  lent  you  at  Annapolis 
To  Ditto  at  Capt.  Wells 
To  Bills  paid  by  me 


Dr. 

£   00 

10 

0 

06 

00 

0 

01 

00 

0 

00 

03 

0 

00 

02 

6 

00 

01 

0 

03 

12 

0 

£11     08     6 


New  London,  January  29th.      1711,  12, 
Then    Received   of    Col.    William   Whiting   the    Sum   of    Three 
Pounds  Twelve  Shillings  being  for  Service  at  Port  Royal:    I  say 
Received  per  me.  John  Mackwise. 


Thomas  Armstrong, 
To  Sundry  Slops 
To  Province  Bills 
Paid  by  Mr.  Borland  to  Capt.  Bartlet 


John  Uick, 
To  Mr.  Foxcraft 
To  Cloathing  Receiv'd  of  me 
To  Sir  Charles 
To  Province  Bills 
To  Sundries  of  Mr.  Scuyler 
To  paid  Mr.  Boland 
To  paid  you  by  my  Self 


Dr. 

£   01 

13 

6 

00 

10 

0 

11 

08 

2 

£   13 

11 

8 

Dr. 

£   02 

15 

1 

01 

12 

6 

04 

02 

4 

00  10  0 
04  02  9 

01  10  0 
01  07  0 


£   15      19 


Hartford,  January  the  7th.     1711,  12. 
Then  Received  of  Col.  William  Whiting  the  Sum  of  One  Pound 
Seven  Shillings   for  my  Service  at  Port  Royal:    I   say   Received 
per  me.  John  Uick. 


[55  ] 


Benjamin  Tyler, 
To  Mr.  Foxcraft 
To  Sir  Charles 
To  Province  Bills 
To  Sundries  of  Mr.  Scuyler 
To  a  Jacket  of  me 
To  paid  Mr.  Borland 
Paid  in  Bills  by  me 


Dr. 

£  01 

14. 

10 

02 

06 

81/2 

00 

10 

0 

03 

18 

3 

00 

12 

0 

01 

10 

0 

01 

11 

4 

£12      03      4. 


Brandford,  December  the  31st.      1711. 
Received    of    Col.    William    Whiting    the    Sum    of    One    Pound 
Eleven  Shillings  and  Four  Pence  for  Service  at  Annapolis  Royal: 
I  say  Received  per  me.  Benj.  Tyler. 


William  Kerle, 
To  Mr.  Foxcraft 
To  Mr.  Jackson 
To  Sir  Charles 
To  Province  Bills 
To  Simdries  by  Scuyler 


Ebenezer  Cooper, 
To  Sundries  to  Foxcraft 
To  Sir  Charles 
To  Province  Bills 
To  Sundries  of  Mr.  Scuyler 
To  paid  per  Mr.  Borland 
To  6  Pound  of  Soap 
To  Bills  paid  your  Father 

£   13     02     4,% 
December  12th.     1711. 
Received  of  Col.  William  Whiting  for  my  Son  Ebenezar  Cooper 
the  Sum  of  Two  Pound  Five  Shillings   and  Seven   Pence,   being 
for  his  Service  at  Port  Royal:    I  say  per  me. 

Thomas  Cooper. 


Dr. 

£  05 

15 

3 

00 

17 

7 

02 

00 

6 

00 

10 

0 

03 

09 

9 

£  12 

13 

1 

Dr. 

£  02 

12 

5 

02 

10 

10% 

00 

10 

0 

03 

11 

6 

01 

10 

0 

00 

02 

0 

02 

05 

7 

[  56] 


William  Everett, 
To  Mr.  Foxcraft 
To  Sir  Charles 
To  Province  Bills 


John  Morris, 
To  Mr.  Foxcraft 
To  Sir  Charles 


Thomas  Fanning, 
To  Mr.  Foxcraft 
To  Sir  Charles 
To  Mr.  Jackson 
To  a  Jacket 


Samuel  Munson, 
To  Mr.  Foxcraft 
To  Sir  Charles 
To  Mr.  Jackson 


Dr. 

£   02 

09 

6 

01 

10 

0 

00 

10 

0 

£   Oi 

09 

6 

Dr. 

£   02 

09 

4 

01 

19 

0 

£   04 

09 

0 

Dr. 

£   02 

19 

2 

02 

03 

0 

00 

15 

11 

00 

12 

0 

£06     10     1 


Dr. 

<£  00  10  0 

01  05  8 

00  02  6 

£  02  03  0 


John  Rayment, 
To  Mr.  Foxcraft 
To  Sir  Charles 
To  Mr.  Jackson 


Dr. 

£01  09  8 

00  13  10 

00  01  2 


£  02     04     8 


[  57  ] 

James  Cornish,  Dr. 

To  Mr.  Foxcraft  £  00     10     3 

To  Sir  Charles  00     03     4 

To  paid  William  Tuller  03     15     9 


£  04.     09     4. 


Hartford,  February  5th.     1711,  12. 
Received    of    Col.    Will.    Whiting    the    Sum    of    Three    Pounds 
Fifteen  and   Nine   Pence,   being   for   James    Cornish's   Service   at 
Annapolis  Royal:    I  say  Received  per  Order  per  me. 

William  Tuller. 

Ephraim  Bates  Dr. 

To  Foxcraft  £  00     16     2 

To  bills  paid  by  your  Brother  Joseph  01     00     8 


£  01      16  10 


Hartford,  June  11.     1712. 
Then   Received   of   Col.  William  Whiting  the   Sum   of   Twenty 
Shillings   and   Eight   Pence,   being   for   my   late   Brother   Ephraim 
Bates's  Service  at  Port  Royal:    I  say  Received  per  me. 

Steven  Bates. 

William  Philips, 
To  Mr.  Foxcraft 
To  Sir  Charles 


Isaac  Ray, 
To  Foxcraft 
To  Sir  Charles 
To  paid  James  Ray 


Dr. 

£  02 

19 

2 

00 

13 

8 

£  03 

12 

10 

Dr. 

£  01 

00 

0 

00 

17 

4 

00 

07 

2 

£  02      04      4 


Hartford,  March  the  7th.      1711,  12. 
Received  of  Col.  William  Whiting  the  Sum  of  Seven  Shillings, 
For  my  Son  Isaac  Ray's  Service  at  Port  Royal:    I  say  per  me. 

James  Ray. 


[58] 

John  Beach,  Dr. 

To  Foxcraft  £02     06     9 

To  Money  paid  by  me  00     01     0 

To  Cash  paid  by  John  Sandford  00     07     7 


£02     15     4 


Wallingford,  January  11th.     1711,  12. 
Then   Received   of    Col.    William   Whiting   the    Sum    of    Seven 
Shillings   and  Seven   Pence,   Being  for   John   Beaches   Service   at 
Port  Royal:   I  say  Received  per  me,  and  the  other  Relations  by  me. 

John  Sanford. 


Joseph  Parkes,  Dr. 

To  Foxcraft  £  01      18     6 

To  paid  my  Self  00     18   11 


£  02     17     5 
Hartford,  January  the  21st.     1711,  12. 
Then  Received  of  Col.  William  Whiting  the  Sum  of  Eighteen 
Shillings    and    Eleven    Pence,    being    for    my    Brother    Joseph's 
Service  (Deceased)  at  Port  Royal:    I  say  per  me. 

Nathaniel  Parks. 


Zachariah  Ferris,  Dr. 

To  Foxcraft  £  00     10     0 

To  Mr.  Walker  per  your  Note  00     1 1     6 


£01     02     6 


Thomas  Devenish,  Dr. 

To  Mr.  Foxcraft  £  01  15     6 

To  Sir  Charles  00  08     8 

To  Cash  paid  you  by  me  00  01   10 

£  02  06     0 


[  59  ] 


Ebenezar  Carrington, 

Dr. 

To  Foxcraft 

£  03 

15 

4 

To  Sir  Charles 

02 

07 

6 

£  06 
Dr. 

02 

10 

Ephraim  Wheeler, 

To  Foxcraft 

£  01 

14 

0 

To  Jackson 

00 

13 

3 

To  Sir  Charles 

02 

10 

4. 

£  04 
Dr. 

17 

7 

Joseph  Rodman, 

To  Foxcraft 

£  02 

02 

9 

To  Jackson 

00 

02 

3 

To  Sir  Charles 

00 

05 

0 

To  what  I  paid  John  Makens 

per  your 

Mother 

s 

or 

der     00 

06 

4 

£  02     16     4 
Hartford,  July  the  2d.     1711. 

Received  of  Col.  Will.  Whiting  for  Joseph  Rodman's  Service 
at  Port  Royal,  the  Sum  of  Six  Shillings  and  Four  Pence,  by 
Virtue  of  his  Mother's  Orders  since  his  Decease:    I  say  per  me. 

John  Meakins. 


David  Lyman,  Dr. 

To  Foxcraft  <£  01  00  7 

To  Sir  Charles  01  09  10 

To  Bills  paid  his  Brother  Jonathan  01  16  11 


£  03     17     4 
Hartford,  March  the  7th.     1711,  12. 

Then  Received  of  Col.  William  Whiting  the  Sum  of  One  Pound 
Six  and  Eleven  Pence,  for  my  brother  David's  Service  at  Port 
Royal:    As  per  Order  per  me. 

Jonathan  Lyman. 


[  60] 


Thomas  Harris, 
To  Foxcraft 
To  Sir  Charles 
To  Jackson 


Querry  Chatfield, 
To  Foxcraft 
To  Jackson 
To  Sir  Charles 


Joseph  Goodwin, 
To  Foxcraft 
To  Jackson 
To  Sir  Charles  Hobby 


John  Floyd, 
To  Foxcraft 
To  Jackson 
To  Sir  Charles 


John  Martin, 
To  Foxcraft 
To  Jackson 
To  Sir  Charles 
To  a  pair  of  Breeches 
To  INIoney  for  Milk 
To  paid  Mr.  Ward  his  Master 


Dr. 

£  01  16  3 

01  02  4 

00  03  4 

£  03  01  11 

Dr. 

£  03  19  3 

00  05  10 

01  11  4 

£  05  16  6 

Dr. 

£  00  08  6 

00  07  5 

01  19  10 

£02  15  9 

Dr. 

<£  02  19  1 

00  02  2 

02  10  0 

£05  11  3 

Dr. 

£  01  14  10 

01  09  6 
00  10  10 
00  08  0 

00  01  0 

01  07  2 


£  05     11     4 
December  the  21st.     1711. 
Then  Received  of  Col.  William  Whiting  the  Sum  of  One  Pound 
Seven  and  Two  Pence   for  John  Marins   Service  at  Port   Royal, 
being  my  Servant:    I  say  per  me.  William  Ward. 


[  61  ] 

William  Lee,  Dr. 

To  Mr.  Foxcraft  £  02     07     0 

To  Mr.  Jackson  01      15     3 

To  Sir  Charles  Hobby  02     00     0 


£  06     02     3 


William  Parks,  Dr. 

To  Mr.  Foxcraft  £  01  07  0 

To  Mr.  Jackson  00  07  7 

To  Sir  Charles  01  15  2 

To  paid  John  Parks  per  Order  02  03  7 


£05      13     4 


Hartford,  May  the  16th.     1712. 
Then  Received  of  Col.  William  Whiting  the  Sum  of  Two  Pounds 
Three   Shillings   and  Seven   Pence,   being  due   for  William   Parks 
Service  at  Port  Royal:    I  say  per  Order  Received  by  me. 

John  Parks. 


Joseph  Button,  Dr. 

To  Foxcraft  £  03  02  3 

To  Jackson  00  07  1 

To  Sir  Charles  01  13  6 

To  paid  Thomas  Gates  per  Order                                    00  09  10 


£  05      12     2 
June  3d.  1712. 
Received   of  Col.   William  Whiting  the   Sum   of   Nine   Shillings 
and  Ten  Pence,  for  Joseph  Dutton's  Service  at  Port  Royal:    As 
per  Order  per  me.  Thomas  Gates. 


Elnathan  Perry,  Dr. 

To  Foxcraft  £  00  17  10 

To  Jackson  00  14-6 

To  Sir  Charles  00  19     0 

To  a  Hatt  00  03     0 

£  02  14.     4) 


[  62  ] 

Samuel  Bartlet,  Dr. 

To  Foxcraft  .£01  11  7 

To  Jackson  00  00  9 

To  Sir  Charles  00  18  4 

To  Sundries  Receiv'd  of  me  00  16  0 

To  Bills  paid  William  Porter  02  13  4 


£05      10     0 


Hartford,  March  the  7th.     1711,  12. 
Received   of   Col.   William   Whiting   the    Sum    of   Two    Pounds 
Thirteen   Shillings   and   Four   Pence,   being   for   Samuel   Bartlet's 
Service,  at  Port  Royal:    I  say  Received  as  Administrators  to  the 
said  Bartlet  per  me.  William  Porter. 


Edward  Haget, 

Dr. 

To  Foxcraft 

£  01 

15 

10 

To  Jackson 

00 

19 

5 

To  Sir  Charles 

01 

13 

2 

To   15  Pound  of  Soap  at  4d  per  Pound 

00 

05 

8 

To  Sundries  amounting  to 

03 

07 

11 

£  08 

02 

0 

Joseph  Burton,  Dr. 

To  Bills  paid  your  Master  Col.  John 

Livingston  in  full     £  12     03     4 

New  London,  December  10th.     1712. 
Received  of  Col.  William  Whiting  the   Sum  of  Three   Pounds 
in  full  of  Joseph  Burtons  Pay  at  Annapolis  Royal,  he  being  my 
Servant.  John  Livingston. 


Boston  January  the  6th.     1713. 

Save  Errors,  Per 

William  Whiting. 


